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I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody in my family sang, always lots of records, blues and jazz and soul, R&B, you know, like Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Coltrane, that kind of thing.
- Tracy Chapman
#Blues
#Family
#Jazz
#Music
#Soul
Honestly, I think, as an artist, it's everything that's in your life that informs what you do. So, obviously, growing up in Cleveland has played a big role in how I see the world.
- Tracy Chapman
#Everything
#Growing Up
#Life
#See
#World
I always considered trying to make a living playing music. But it was always really clear to me, at the various stages in my life, that it really wasn't a possibility unless some phenomenal thing happened.
- Tracy Chapman
#Life
#Living
#Me
#Music
#My Life
I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn't intrude on the creative part.
- Tracy Chapman
#Business
#Make
#Music
#Side
#Whatever
I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.
- Tracy Chapman
#Happen
#Never
#Success
#Surprise
#Would
So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.
- Tracy Chapman
#Discrimination
#Economics
#Gender
#Race
You need to keep something for yourself. As a writer, I feel that even more strongly. I feel like I need to be able to freely observe the world. That's the way I like to move through the world; I don't need to be the focus of attention. If I am, it impairs my ability to write and to do what I do.
- Tracy Chapman
#Focus
#I Am
#Way
#World
#Yourself
I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.
- Tracy Chapman
#Better
#Change
#Opportunity
#Thinking
That's one of the things I like about San Francisco. It's not like anywhere else in the world.
- Tracy Chapman
#About
#Anywhere
#Like
#Things
#World
I had a ukulele when I was much younger. I have no idea what happened to it but I think that was part of it, just being inspired and wanting to try to play an instrument that, to me, sounded beautiful.
- Tracy Chapman
#Beautiful
#Me
#Play
#Try
#Ukulele
We do need to think about how we have security - everyone has a right to that - but we also need to think about how we maintain civil rights and personal freedom.
- Tracy Chapman
#Everyone
#Freedom
#How
#Rights
#Security
What does the future look like if the heads of society ask our young people to risk their lives for questionable causes? I think it looks rather bleak.
- Tracy Chapman
#Future
#Look
#People
#Society
#Young
I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.
- Tracy Chapman
#Believe
#Important
#Music
#Stand Up
#Up
I never travelled when I was younger.
- Tracy Chapman
#Never
#Travelled
#Younger
I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.
- Tracy Chapman
#Early
#Either
#Late
#Morning
#Night
There have been some gains made in terms of more equality for women in the workplace and in the way the legal system deals with issues of violence against women.
- Tracy Chapman
#Equality
#Legal
#Violence
#Way
#Women
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
#Change
#Daily
#Experience
#Hope
#Life
I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.
- Tracy Chapman
#Audience
#Meet
#Person
#See
#Way
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
#Great
#Listening
#Music
#New
#Way
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
#About
#Growing Up
#Mother
#Singing
#Up
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
#Help
#Media
#More
#Technology
#Us
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
#Animals
#Coat
#Costume
#Halloween
#Up
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
#Control
#Feel
#Like
#Nothing
#Process
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
#Gun
#Me
#Myself
#Race
#Shoot
I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
- Tracy Chapman
#About
#Anything
#Far
#Go
#Religion
We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.
- Tracy Chapman
#Always
#Feeling
#Live
#Moment
#Thinking
I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.
- Tracy Chapman
#Anything
#Art
#Consensus
#Expectations
#Live
#Try
I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.
- Tracy Chapman
#Life
#Live
#My Life
#Right
#Tried
At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.
- Tracy Chapman
#Life
#Live
#Love
#My Life
#Point
There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.
- Tracy Chapman
#Being
#Good
#Jail
#Protesting
#Reasons
If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it's mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that's what matters.
- Tracy Chapman
#Aesthetic
#Chance
#Life
#Living
#Path
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