Tracy Chapman Quotes

For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.

Choreography is something that I am always going to take up, and it will be on the forefront.

Making music is all about forgetting about everything around you.

If you're concentrating so damn hard on a piece of mathematics or a musical - a piece of music or a piece of art, the restraint that holds the rest of - the rest of the world back off and vanishes in the rest of your life.

I've always had an instrument attached to my body.

The music has always been the first and foremost element in our career.

Everything in my life really filters down to the music.

Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!

I love music. That's my first love. I'm actually going to start working on that full-time very soon, but I love acting as well. It satisfies a different part of who I am. I love to pretend, to imagine, try new things, work with different people, and just see how far I can go.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

I'm an interpreter of music.

If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

I loved dance.

I think my favorite thing is songwriting.

Dance is so joyous.

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.

At night I can write for hours.

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

My first album is playful.

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.

I'm here to sing.