Shelby Lynne Quotes

I can't stand too long of a record.

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

I was an opening act for 10 years.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that way.

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

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.

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

All I do is party.

I like rules that are broken.

I just don't conform very well.

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

Sure I got a mouth on me.

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

I like strength. I depend on my own.

It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.

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 feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.

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

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

The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

My thinking brain never stops my creative brain never stops so they wrestle a lot and get in fights sometimes they fight in the night and keep me up.

My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.

I was singing before I could talk.

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

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 like to make great albums.

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

I didn't go to college.

I write about what I know.

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.

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

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

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

I am very picky about my people and my beer.

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

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

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.

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

My drawings are another kind of music for me ... they relax me and I think they all connect somehow.

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