Top 30 Amy Ray Quotes (2024 Update)

Amy Ray Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

Amy Ray Quote: “Tolerance ain’t the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.”

2. “Tolerance ain’t the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.”

Amy Ray Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

Amy Ray Quote: “An idealist who couldn’t cope becomes cynical.”

4. “An idealist who couldn’t cope becomes cynical.”

Amy Ray Quote: “Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don’t belong here.”

5. “Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don’t belong here.”

Amy Ray Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

Amy Ray Quote: “It’s important to have a voice; it’s more important to use it.”

7. “It’s important to have a voice; it’s more important to use it.”

Amy Ray Quote: “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.”

8. “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 Ray Quote: “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.”

9. “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 Quote: “My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.”

10. “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 Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Ray Quote: “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.”

12. “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 Quote: “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.”

13. “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 Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

Amy Ray Quote: “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.”

15. “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 Quote: “Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.”

16. “Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.”

Amy Ray Quote: “Your perspective probably depends on where you live.”

17. “Your perspective probably depends on where you live.”

Amy Ray Quote: “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.”

18. “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 Quote: “There are a lot of people who that you may only nod to; it’s better to stop and say hello.”

19. “There are a lot of people who that you may only nod to; it’s better to stop and say hello.”

Amy Ray Quote: “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.”

20. “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 Quote: “When people say, ‘Nothing’s coming to me,’ they usually don’t like what’s coming to them.”

21. “When people say, ‘Nothing’s coming to me,’ they usually don’t like what’s coming to them.”

Amy Ray Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

Amy Ray Quote: “I don’t typically work that late into the night in a studio, I’m more productive during the day.”

23. “I don’t typically work that late into the night in a studio, I’m more productive during the day.”

Amy Ray Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

Amy Ray Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

Amy Ray Quote: “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.”

26. “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 Quote: “But the reality is that we are a folk band.”

27. “But the reality is that we are a folk band.”

Amy Ray Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

Amy Ray Quote: “I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.”

29. “I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.”

Amy Ray Quote: “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.”

30. “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 Ray 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.”

31. “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 Quote: “I do think within any job you do, you have a chance to serve the community.”

32. “I do think within any job you do, you have a chance to serve the community.”

Amy Ray Quote: “When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it’s very collaborative.”

33. “When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it’s very collaborative.”

Amy Ray Quote: “Maybe our gender is one thing and our sexuality is another. And that’s a cool thing I think.”

34. “Maybe our gender is one thing and our sexuality is another. And that’s a cool thing I think.”

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