Tracy Chapman Quotes


23 quotes:

"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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"We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us."
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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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"Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control."
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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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"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."
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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 would have liked to have had a little break after I made the record before I started this part of it, but it's best for me to get right into it."
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"I really love playing music with other people. It's more fun to be on the road with others. It's kind of lonely out there when you play on your own!"
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"I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night."
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"I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished."
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"I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about."
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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."
Author: Chapman Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs."
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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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"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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"You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person."
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"I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right."
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"We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived."
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