"I picked up the guitar at 11, but……" — Tracy Chapman

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I… - Tracy Chapman

"I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ."

— Tracy Chapman

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55 Quotes by Tracy Chapman

Tracy Chapman has 55 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it…
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I…
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…
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…
A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it…
I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe…
As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do…
Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia…
When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and…
Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding

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More Guitar Quotes

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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I… — Dan Aykroyd
I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him. — Jensen Ackles
My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it. — Tyra Banks
I'm full of dust and guitars. — Syd Barrett
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all… — Syd Barrett
The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish. — George Benson
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. — Theodore Bikel
I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling… — Ritchie Blackmore
I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be… — Ritchie Blackmore
I don't see myself as such an important guitarist. — Ritchie Blackmore
But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the… — Ritchie Blackmore

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