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Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.
Tracy Chapman
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Tracy Chapman
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 30
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Street Artist
Cleveland
Ohio
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Skin
Body
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Numbness
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I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
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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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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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My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.
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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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Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
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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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We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.
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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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I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
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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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We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.
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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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Love's a recurring theme through my work.
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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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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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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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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 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.
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I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.
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