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Tracy Chapman
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Tracy Chapman
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 30
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Singer-Songwriter
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Cleveland
Ohio
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More quotes by Tracy Chapman
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.
Tracy Chapman
Now love's the only thing that's free /We must take it where it's found /Pretty soon it may be costly
Tracy Chapman
I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
Tracy Chapman
Words don't come easily, like forgive me.
Tracy Chapman
Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.
Tracy Chapman
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
Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.
Tracy Chapman
There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.
Tracy Chapman
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.
Tracy Chapman
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.
Tracy Chapman
I may be revered or defamed and decried But I tried to live my life right.
Tracy Chapman
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
Tracy Chapman
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
I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.
Tracy Chapman
My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.
Tracy Chapman
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?'
Tracy Chapman
I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store.
Tracy Chapman
Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding
Tracy Chapman
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
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
