Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Tracy Chapman Quotes

That's one of the things I like about San Francisco. It's not like anywhere else in the world.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 30, 1964

Topics

World Things San Francisco Like Else

My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.

Father Money Me Computers Year Out

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

Beauty World More Complex Intense

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

People Important Who Important Thing

We take literature too seriously.

Literature Seriously Take Too

I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people.

People Comfortable Room Very

I saw an advertisement to work for a Swedish institute in Karachi in Pakistan. I had just been offered a permanent assignment, teaching in Oulu. But I felt, 'My God, I am not going to stay here forever.' You know why? Because I was following international events.

Martti Ahtisaari

Work God I Am You Know Why

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

Think Slow Doing Down Race Human

If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. And then you hope that one of us lot will walk around and find small pieces of you.

Hope Walk Small Die You Earth

I don't really regard myself as a political figure.

Jordan Peterson

Myself Political Figure Really

Some of the subject matters that I like to make stories about are definitely not inherently commercial. So I have to look for a very special kind of financing and go down a very gentle path in order to make my films, as do basically all social-realist filmmakers. It's a long process.

Path Process Long Look Down Kind

I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.

Fall Back Hot Away Just Still

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

Love Think Better Nice True Room

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Tracy Chapman