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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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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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An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.
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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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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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But the reality is that we are a folk band.
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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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Maybe our gender is one thing and our sexuality is another. And that's a cool thing I think.
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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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When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.
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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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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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I do think within any job you do, you have a chance to serve the community.
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