Tracy Chapman Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Running, Gun, Found Someone

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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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  Song, Together, Might

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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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  Mother, Growing Up, Singing

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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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  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• I really love playing music with other people. It's more fun to be on the road with others. It's kind of lonely out there when you play on your own!

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  Lonely, Fun, Play

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• Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.

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  Numbness, Skins, Body

  Song: Remember The Tinman, Album: New Beginning, 1995

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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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  People, Giving, Growth

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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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  May, Found

  Song: If Not Now, Album: Tracy Chapman, 1988

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• I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

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  Kings, Thinking, People

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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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  Surprise, Never Assume, Honestly

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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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  Technology, Media, Talking

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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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  Night, Rocks, 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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  Two, Lines, Fragments

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Song, Writing, Might

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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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  Inspiration, Path, Sometimes

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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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  Song, Weather, Together

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• Love's a recurring theme through my work.

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  Theme, Recurring Themes, Recurring

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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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  Song, Trying, Connections

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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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  Like You, Shows, Feels

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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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  School, Kids, Cleveland

  "The quiet revolutionary". Interview with Amy Fleming, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2008.

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• I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

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  Morning, Writing, Night

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• My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

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  Family, Men, Bottles

  Song: Fast Car, Album: Tracy Chapman, 1988

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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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  Sex, Men, Hands

  FaceBook post by Tracy Chapman Online from Mar 08, 2014

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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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  Mother, Children, Thinking

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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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  Beach, California, Woods

  "Without Further Ado, Singer Tracy Chapman Returns". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 20, 2009.

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