Amy Ray quotes
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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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“It's important to have a voice; it's more important to use 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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“When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.”
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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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“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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“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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“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.”
-- Amy RaySource : "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.
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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.”
-- Amy RaySource : "Another side of Amy Ray" by Todd Leopold, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.
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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 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.”
-- Amy RaySource : "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.
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“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.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.”
-- Amy Ray
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