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Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.

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
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Resist

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I feel like there are a lot of people doing a lot of hard work. I think it's too early to judge, and I don't think the gay community is in any way falling short.
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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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Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.
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There are a lot of people who that you may only nod to it's better to stop and say hello.
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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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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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But the reality is that we are a folk band.
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My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.
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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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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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Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!
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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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It's important to have a voice it's more important to use it.
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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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Maybe our gender is one thing and our sexuality is another. And that's a cool thing I think.
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When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.
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The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.
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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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The only thing I have going on at a personal level is just the way I knew I was gay and I knew what that meant inside me, but the gender aspect of who I am came later.
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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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