Tracy Chapman Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.”

“I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.”

“I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.”

“It's fun playing small venues.”

“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.”

“After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.”