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Tracy Chapman (Singer)

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.

— Tracy Chapman live

I'm a hopeful cynic.

— Tracy Chapman hope

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

— Tracy Chapman writing

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

— Tracy Chapman men

At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.

— Tracy Chapman love

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 hope

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

— Tracy Chapman men

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 art

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

— Tracy Chapman time

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

— Tracy Chapman art

There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.

— Tracy Chapman good

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.

— Tracy Chapman self

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 courage

Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you something you would actually need, like a hammer or a broom or a toothbrush. But now there's this notion that they can sell you anything. And all they have to do is convince you that you need it.

— Tracy Chapman people

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.

— Tracy Chapman men

A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.

— Tracy Chapman love

I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.

— Tracy Chapman love

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 life

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

— Tracy Chapman writing

I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

— Tracy Chapman change

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

— Tracy Chapman work

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 women

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 music

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

— Tracy Chapman night

I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.

— Tracy Chapman age

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. Its supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

— Tracy Chapman live

Ive seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

— Tracy Chapman people

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