Tracy Chapman Music Quotes & Sayings

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. — Tracy Chapman

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. — Tracy Chapman

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in. — Tracy Chapman

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. — Tracy Chapman

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! — Tracy Chapman