Tracy Chapman quotes
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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 ChapmanSource : Song: Dreaming On A World
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“I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.”
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“At this point in my life Id like to live as if only love mattered.”
-- Tracy ChapmanSource : Song: At This Point In My Life, Album: New Beginning, 1995
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“We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.”
-- Tracy ChapmanSource : Song: If Not Now, Album: Tracy Chapman, 1988
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“After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.”
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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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“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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“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.”
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“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 ChapmanSource : Song: Give Me One Rreason, Album: New Beginning, 1995
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“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.”
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“It's time to start all over/make a new beginning.”
-- Tracy ChapmanSource : Song: New Beginning, Album: New Beginning, 1995
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“I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.”
-- Tracy ChapmanSource : "Tracy Chapman Comes Out of Her Shell / Publicity-shy singer-songwriter wants people to hear 'Telling Stories'" by Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. April 16, 2000.
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.”
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“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!”
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“As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.”
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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 isolating us.”
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“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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“I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.”
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“Words don't come easily, like forgive me.”
-- Tracy ChapmanSource : Song: Baby Can I Hold You, Album: Tracy Chapman, 1988
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“I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.”
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“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.”
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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 have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.”
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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 Aretha Franklin.”
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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 fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot.”
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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 you even really need.”
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“Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding”
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“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 ChapmanSource : Song: All That You Have Is Your Soul, Album: Crossroads, 1989
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“Love is hate War is Peace No is Yes And we're all free.”
-- Tracy ChapmanSource : Song: Why?, Album: Tracy Chapman, 1988
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“Now love's the only thing that's free /We must take it where it's found /Pretty soon it may be costly”
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“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”
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“I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.”
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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 animals for patients and put bandages on them.”
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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.”
-- Tracy ChapmanSource : "A militant mellows". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2002.
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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 way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.”
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“I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.”
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“With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.”
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“I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.”
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“Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged A grave that's deep and wide enough For me and all my mountains o'things”
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“Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.”
-- Tracy ChapmanSource : Song: Remember The Tinman, Album: New Beginning, 1995
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“Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.”
-- Tracy Chapman#Renounce Quotes #Misinterpretation Quotes #Materials Quotes
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“Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'”
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“I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store.”
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“My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.”
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“I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.”
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“Love's a recurring theme through my work.”
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“My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.”
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“The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.”
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“I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.”
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“I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.”
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“We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.”
-- Tracy Chapman
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