135 Quotes by Tracy Chapman

This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I’m too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.

I don’t want someone to squeeze me, that might take away my life. Just want someone to hold me, and we’ll rock through the night.

Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding.

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.

My old man’s got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

Now love’s the only thing thats free. We must take it where it’s found. Pretty soon it may be costly.

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.

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.

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.