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" There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting. "
Tracy Chapman
Reasons
Being
Jail
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" 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. "
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Yourself
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" 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?' "
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Career
" 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. "
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Way
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" As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library. "
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Lot
Spent
Time
" 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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Race
Music
Rock
" I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished. "
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Talking
Things
Learn
" 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. "
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Doing
Early
Me
" As I started to consider a career in music, I hoped for success, truthfully. I didn't imagine anything that would amass the level of the first record, but I hoped that I would be able to sustain a career. "
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Career
Music
Started
" Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin. "
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Singing
Mother
Growing Up
" 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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Look
Think
Society
" There's a time and place for everything, and my focus is music. So that's what I prefer to spend most of my time doing, and not talk about making music. "
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Time
Focus
Doing
" When we started making 'Where You Live', I bought a bunch of Polaroid cameras in so that people could record the experience. Some of those pictures are in the CD sleeve. "
Tracy Chapman
Live
You
Pictures
" I mentioned that I received a scholarship to Episcopalian school, and the model for the school was 'From each according to his or her ability and to each according to his or her need.' And it's something that is still really important to me in thinking about how I prioritize what I do with my life. "
Tracy Chapman
School
Her
My Life
" I won't get into it any more than to say that there are parts of me in all the songs that I write. "
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Write
Than
More
" I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go. "
Tracy Chapman
Far
Anything
Sure
" 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
Me
Play
Think
" That's what everyone should do with their lives: stand up for what they believe in or try to do some good in the world. I don't think artists have a greater responsibility than anyone else. "
Tracy Chapman
Try
Think
Good
" 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
Than
Us
Technology
" Love's a recurring theme through my work. "
Tracy Chapman
Theme
Work
Recurring
" I started playing and writing songs when I was eight. "
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Eight
Writing
Started
" Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control. "
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Nothing
Like
Feel
" It's fun playing small venues. "
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Small
Fun
Playing
" There are some concerns that are universal. Everyone wants to be loved, and everyone wants to feel like they belong somewhere in the world. Everyone wants to do something and feel like they have a sense of purpose. These are just the things that I think about and the things that make their way into my songwriting. "
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World
Think
Purpose
" 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
Growth
Hope
" I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods. "
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Love
California
Living
" I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in. "
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Believe
Stand
Think
" At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered. "
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Like
Point
My Life
" I never travelled when I was younger. "
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Travelled
Younger
Never
" After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration. "
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I Can
Back
Path
" 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
Loved
Time
Poverty