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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
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Singer-Songwriter
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Decatur
Georgia
Amy Elizabeth Ray
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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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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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I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.
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But the reality is that we are a folk band.
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...and when I am negative, I will be negative only for as long as I have to be, until I can understand it, and then I will be positive...when I hate, I will turn my hatred into energy, when I am angry I will turn my anger into energy...and I will not be complacent.
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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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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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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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Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.
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When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.
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I do think within any job you do, you have a chance to serve the community.
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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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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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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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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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Maybe our gender is one thing and our sexuality is another. And that's a cool thing I think.
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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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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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