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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.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Dream #Stars #Night
“I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Positive #Angel #People
“At this point in my life Id like to live as if only love mattered.”
-- Tracy Chapman
“We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Thinking #Reality #Feelings
“After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Inspiration #Path #Sometimes
“Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Two #Lines #Fragments
“Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Creating #Mysterious #Process
“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.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Car #Decision #Way
“This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Love #Heart #Giving
“You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Differences #Trying #Attention
“It's time to start all over/make a new beginning.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#New Beginnings
“I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Opportunity #Thinking #People
“I don't want someone to squeeze me, that might take away my life. Just want someone to hold me, and we'll rock through the night.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Night #Rocks #Want
“I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Writing #Littles #Topics
“I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Spirituality #Not Sure
“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!”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Song #Weather #Together
“As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Children #Library
“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.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Technology #Media #Talking
“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.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Running #Gun #Years
“I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Trying #Projects #Persons
“Words don't come easily, like forgive me.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Reality #Forgive Me #Forgiving
“I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Talking #Records
“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. It's all about the individual songs.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Song #Trying #Records
“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.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Like You #Shows #Feels
“Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Mother #Growing Up #Singing
“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.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Mother #Children #Thinking
“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.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Dream #Real #People
“Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Respect #Understanding #Have Faith
“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 a world of truth 'Cause all that you have is your soul.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Love #Apples #Justice
“Love is hate War is Peace No is Yes And we're all free.”
-- Tracy Chapman

#Hate #War #Love Is

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