Tracy Chapman Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

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

  Tracy Chapman

  Song, Writing, Guitar

• 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, Connections

• 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

• 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.

  Tracy Chapman

  Song, Guitar, Years

• 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.

  Tracy Chapman

  Song, Together, Might

• I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.

  Tracy Chapman

  Song, Writing, Tree

• I'm never sure if I'll ever write another song, what the song will be about and if what initially sparked the beginning of a song might complete it.

  Tracy Chapman

  Song, Writing, Might

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