Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapmanis an American singer-songwriter, known for her hits "Fast Car" and "Give Me One Reason", along with other singles "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Crossroads", "New Beginning" and "Telling Stories". She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth30 March 1964
CityCleveland, OH
CountryUnited States of America
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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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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.
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The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although people don't talk about it, there are a lot of issues of race determining musical categories of what's rock, R&B, or even folk. It ends up restricting creativity.
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I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
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As you might imagine, I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests, and I basically try to do what I can.
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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.
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Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.
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So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.
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I think religion played a huge part in Bush's re-election.