Shelby Lynne Quotes
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I wasn't encouraged to write just stand there and sing and I never thought I was a writer. I always figured if I couldn't write something as good as "He Stopped Loving Her Today," then what's the point?
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Now I can make a thousand dollars a night at a club.
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It's time for artists to take their music back.
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I don't feel like taking anybody's money.
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The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.
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I like strength. I depend on my own.
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Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.
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It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.
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I just don't conform very well.
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Ben [Peeler] and I have known each other for a decade. He trusts my crazy ideas and spontaneous combustion and he gets the players I want and knows the kind of personality players I like. He has taste that I trust and that to me is more important than any technical things.
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I was an opening act for 10 years.
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I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.
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I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.
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What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time.
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I love being a gypsy and getting on the bus with the band making sounds for the people who love and enjoy a night of Americana and good times.
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I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.
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I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.
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Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.
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I can't stand too long of a record.
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My drawings are another kind of music for me...they relax me and I think they all connect somehow.
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I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.
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I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my life. I’m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.
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I feel like records are moments in time, a modern moment that feels right then and it found its way to us then, that minute. We can all try and repeat records we have made that had success, but it's not possible.
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The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.
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I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.
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There's not anything I can fix, change, make better its out to the world. I'd like to say that I like my records but it's for reasons other than enjoyment, it's more like a notch on my revolver, one more down. I am proud of my work, yes but its accomplishment to me and another year of schooling,in making records it can always be better!
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I love the live cut part of making records the surprises are the prizes.
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I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.
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Music should be poor. Music should be with out air conditioning. That's just the way it is.
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My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.
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