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Tracy Chapman has 56 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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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We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.
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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…
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Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
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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…
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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…
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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 it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.
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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…
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Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and…
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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…
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Popular Aretha Franklin quotes from across the collection:
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As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha…
— Mary J. Blige
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Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and…
— Tracy Chapman
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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if…
— Maya Angelou
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I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good…
— Condoleezza Rice
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From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney…
— Aberjhani
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Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into…
— Helen Garner
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There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.
— Peabo Bryson
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I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.
— Jonny Lang
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I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
— George Thorogood
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She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.
— Trisha Yearwood
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People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.
— Joss Stone
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The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
— Ernie Isley
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