Love Quote by Joan Armatrading

There is something quietly radical in a veteran artist insisting she loves the whole machine. Touring is where musicians are supposed to confess their misery: the airports, the bad sleep, the performative gratitude. Joan Armatrading flips that script with a line that sounds simple but lands like a refusal to be mythologized as suffering-for-the-art. The repetition of "I love" isn’t just emphasis; it’s a steadying beat, the kind of phrasing you use when you’re done negotiating with other people’s assumptions.

The key move is "all the parts of the process". That phrase expands the frame from the glamor of the stage to the unsexy labor behind it: rehearsal, soundcheck, setlist math, travel logistics, the emotional calibration required to show up night after night. In a music culture that treats touring as either punishment (for the broke) or victory lap (for the famous), Armatrading frames it as craft. Not escape, not ordeal - work she chose and still chooses.

Context matters: Armatrading built a long career with a reputation for control and consistency, never leaning on spectacle to sell authenticity. So the line reads as an artist protecting her relationship to music from the churn of industry narratives. It’s also a subtle flex: to love the process is to have made peace with repetition, with refinement, with the disciplined routines that keep a live show honest.

The subtext is contentment without complacency. She’s telling you what sustains longevity: not inspiration as lightning strike, but devotion to the entire pipeline.