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Words don't come easily, like forgive me.
Tracy Chapman
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Tracy Chapman
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 30
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Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Cleveland
Ohio
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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 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
Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.
Tracy Chapman
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'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
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I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store.
Tracy Chapman
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.
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
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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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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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Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.
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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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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
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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I may be revered or defamed and decried But I tried to live my life right.
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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.
Tracy Chapman
After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.
Tracy Chapman
Love's a recurring theme through my work.
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
