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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.
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.
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
I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
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Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.
Tracy Chapman
We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.
Tracy Chapman
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
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
Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.
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
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 may be revered or defamed and decried But I tried to live my life right.
Tracy Chapman
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.
Tracy Chapman
You got a fast car But is it fast enough so we can fly away We gotta make a decision We leave tonight or live and die this way.
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
So don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for a world of truth 'Cause all that you have is your soul.
Tracy Chapman
After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.
Tracy Chapman
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.
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
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
