Shelby Lynne Quotes

I like rules that are broken.

I like to make great albums.

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

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.

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

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

I didn't go to college.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was singing before I could talk.

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.

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

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 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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I just don't conform very well.

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

I am very picky about my people and my beer.

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 don't feel like taking anybody's money.

A great hang is mandatory. But in all of my years as a traveling musician, on a whole it's been pretty damn magical. There have been a couple duds along the way, but most time, I'm in awe of the guys who want to play on my records.

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

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

Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing....let the song do the work.

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

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