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It's important to have a voice it's more important to use it.

Amy Ray

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Amy Ray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 12
Composer
Mandolinist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Decatur
Georgia
Amy Elizabeth Ray
Voice
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I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.
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We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.
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You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.
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I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.
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ahhhh...organic and rich like good soil... makes me want to listen and hear it grow. the songs are honest and dimensional. it's music to my ears.
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Yeah, we appreciate our women followng...and I love women. I mean, I just really love women. I love men, too, but you know it's like sometimes you look up from what you're doing and you go, 'I love women.' There's just something about them and so, just celebrate it.
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I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.
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Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.
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Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.
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I'm not really thinking about what I'm talking about or what I'm willing to achieve. I'm just kind of letting it come out, recording it.
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I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.
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Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.
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I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really.
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An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.
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At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.
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People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement goes, they still have a language that they've discovered around things. And they have a vocabulary to use, and they have a way to express themselves even when they're not accepted.
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If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric book knowing that it will come out in a song.
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But the reality is that we are a folk band.
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Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!
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I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.
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