Tracy Chapman Quotes

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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…
• Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
• We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.
• 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…
• Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
• 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…
• 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…
• I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.
• I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.
• 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…
• Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
• 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…
• Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding
• So don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for…
• Now love's the only thing that's free /We must take it where it's found /Pretty soon it may be costly
• 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
• At this point in my life Id like to live as if only love mattered.
• I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.
• After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.
• Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent.…

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