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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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Amy Ray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 12
Composer
Mandolinist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Decatur
Georgia
Amy Elizabeth Ray
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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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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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The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.
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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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But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.
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But the reality is that we are a folk band.
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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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I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it's like a labor of love, it's not a huge career. It's not that successful, but it's something I love so much that I'll do it regardless.
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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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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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Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!
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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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If you're a teacher, for instance, there are ways to have positive representation of gay people in the classroom. Making sure that, historically, people are noted and archived, and that kids are getting just positive images of people who are gay.
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An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.
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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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I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.
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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 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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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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