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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.
Tracy Chapman
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Tracy Chapman
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 30
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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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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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My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.
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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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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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Words don't come easily, like forgive me.
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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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Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.
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I may be revered or defamed and decried But I tried to live my life right.
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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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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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I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.
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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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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 think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
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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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Love's a recurring theme through my work.
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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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I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store.
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