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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.

Amy Ray

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Amy Ray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 12
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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'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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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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When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.
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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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Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.
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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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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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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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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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Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.
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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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Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.
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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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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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Your perspective probably depends on where you live.
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An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.
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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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When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.
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