Quote

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.

Amy Ray

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Amy Ray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 12
Composer
Mandolinist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Decatur
Georgia
Amy Elizabeth Ray
People
Hard
Falling
Feel
Gay
Feels
Judge
Work
Judging
Way
Early
Think
Short
Thinking
Community
Like
Fall

More quotes by Amy Ray

Image
Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.
Amy Ray
Image
My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.
Amy Ray
Image
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.
Amy Ray
Image
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.
Amy Ray
Image
When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.
Amy Ray
Image
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.
Amy Ray
Image
There are a lot of people who that you may only nod to it's better to stop and say hello.
Amy Ray
Image
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.
Amy Ray
Image
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.
Amy Ray
Image
...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.
Amy Ray
Image
Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.
Amy Ray
Image
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.
Amy Ray
Image
Maybe our gender is one thing and our sexuality is another. And that's a cool thing I think.
Amy Ray
Image
Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.
Amy Ray
Image
But the reality is that we are a folk band.
Amy Ray
Image
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.
Amy Ray
Image
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.
Amy Ray
Image
An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.
Amy Ray
Image
I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.
Amy Ray
Image
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.
Amy Ray