"I found myself in the middle of a……" — Tracy Chapman
"I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me."
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55 Quotes by Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman has 55 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it…
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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…
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As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do…
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Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia…
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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…
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is…
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