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It's all right if things don't change today. We're gonna keep doing what we do. The world can either catch up or not.

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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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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 don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.
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Your perspective probably depends on where you live.
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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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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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Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You just have to let yourself go and not be worried about what other people are going to say or the things that might come out...Just jump right in full force and be as silly and stupid and adolescent and introspective as you want to be.
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