Shelby Lynne Quotes

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!

I was singing before I could talk.

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

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?

I just don't conform very well.

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.

I'm the audience first, and if you're gonna be a great performer, you need to be a great audience. So, I do music for me first, and whoever likes it likes it, and whoever doesn't
well, it's just not for them.

I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.

I am a late starter. I like to go on into the night when it's quiet and everything has shut down. I find that's where music and minds open in the dark.

All I do is party.

I was an opening act for 10 years.

What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time.

I write about what I know.

You can't roll a joint on an iPod, buy vinyl.

If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.

I like to make great albums.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

Now I can make a thousand dollars a night at a club.

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.

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.

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.

The world has changed a lot since I started making records.I used to go into a studio and there were songs there, chosen for me to see if I liked them. I wasn't encouraged to write.

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.

I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.

That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.

I never sing a song more than twice because my fear of waning excitement for a piece is part of my troubles. I so rely on vibe, energy and emotions that the technical part occurs to me last.

It's time for artists to take their music back.

I can't stand too long of a record.

I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.

I have never had a problem letting a record go.Honestly when I'm making them, mixing them Honestly when I'm making them, mixing them.

I don't feel like taking anybody's money.

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

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.

I have my songs ready in my head, gather the guys, play it and then let them go with it. [The music] finds its way, we do what the music says to do ... the song is the producer.

I like rules that are broken.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

I love the live cut part of making records the surprises are the prizes.

I have always wanted to see what the vibe was like and I was right It's on the Vermillion Bayou.

Music should be poor. Music should be with out air conditioning. That's just the way it is.