Amy Lee Quotes

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Amy Lee

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 13, 1981

I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.

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When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

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We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.

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When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.

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I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

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My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!

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I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.

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I am Evanescence. I am the only original member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine and it's exactly how I want it to be.

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I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classical and metal both, I remember having this cool realization that they are really similar. It's just different instrumentation.

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Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.

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L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.

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There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.

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My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

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Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

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'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

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I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.

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Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people.

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A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.

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I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.

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I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

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