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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
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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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Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone
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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 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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I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
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There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.