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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!
Tracy Chapman
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Tracy Chapman
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 30
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I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
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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.
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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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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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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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Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.
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Words don't come easily, like forgive me.
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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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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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My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.
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I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
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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.
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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 may be revered or defamed and decried But I tried to live my life right.
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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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