Linda Ridgway (born 1947) is an American artist who was born in Jeffersonville, Indiana. She received a B.F.A. from the Louisville School of Art and an M.F.A. from Tulane University. She has participated in various solo and group exhibitions including Linda Ridgway: A Survey, Poetics of Form at the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas and the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas in 1997-98; and One Hundred Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. She currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas.
Ridgway was trained as a printmaker, but is best known for her delicate sculptures based on plants and clothing. The vine-like bronze sculpture The Dance demonstrates this synthesis of bronze and plants. The Dallas Museum of Art, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Phillips Collection (Washington DC), and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation (Los Angeles) are among the public collections holding works by Linda Ridgway.
You said, girl you got a dream,
Give it everything
You got to make 'em see
It was meant to be
Don't you think you ought to give it one more shot?
You seen the glory and the shame
Beauty and the pain
Weakness and the strength
Waiting for the fame
Don't you think you ought to give it all you got?
Chorus:
Because this is your life
You can fall down or fly
You can burn out a shot if you want
This is your life
You can live it or die
You can quit now or try if you want
But don't you give up, don't you give up.
You said what is there to lose?
Do it if you choose
I got faith in you,
Everything you do
I know you are gonna make it to the top.
I can see it in your heart
You have come far
It's everything you are
Don't you think you ought to give it all you got?
Chorus:
Because this is your life
You can fall down or fly
You can burn out a shot if you want
This is your life
You can live it or die
You can quit now or try if you want
And if you should fall
Well then just get back up
Just roll the dice
Got to try out your luck
Give it a shot
Baby, please don't give up
Chorus:
Because this is your life
You can fall down or fly
You can burn out a shot if you want
This is your life
You can live it or die
You can quit now or try if you want
But don't you give up, don't you give