Tracy Chapman Quotes
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Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
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Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding
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You got a fast car But is it fast enough so we can fly away We gotta make a decision We leave tonight or live and die this way.
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Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.
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Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'
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I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.
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I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
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We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.
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I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!
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I'll toss my coins in the fountain, Look for clovers in grassy lawns Search for shooting stars in the night Cross my fingers and dream on.
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I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.
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Love's a recurring theme through my work.
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A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.
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As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot.
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I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
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I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.
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I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.
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I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.
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People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.
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I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.
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We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.
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I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
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I really love playing music with other people. It's more fun to be on the road with others. It's kind of lonely out there when you play on your own!
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I'm never sure if I'll ever write another song, what the song will be about and if what initially sparked the beginning of a song might complete it.
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There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.
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I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store.
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At this point in my life Id like to live as if only love mattered.
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When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.
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Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone
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My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.
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