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I think it is very important in this business to be an individual

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Lee Ann Womack
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 19
Guitarist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Jacksonville
Texas
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The one who actually decided that I should keep my name was my manager, Erv Woolsey.
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My first big show was with Tim McGraw and Mark Chesnutt, and that was overwhelming. There was probably 25,000 people there. I was nervous, (but it) was exhilarating.
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I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.
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There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.
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I'm not afraid to go out on a limb, style-wise or with lyrics. I don't ever want to be afraid to cut those types of songs because radio might not play it.
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A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things.
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When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are
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Never settle for the path of least resistance
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It takes so many people to make a success story like that. It starts with the song and the songwriters, then Mark Wright's producing, all of the players that played on it, me singing, the marketing department, the promotion department at the label... It takes a lot of people to make a hit like that.
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And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.
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There was passion, there was laughter The first morning after I just couldn't get my feet to touch the ground Everytime we were together We talked about forever I was certain it was Heaven We had found.
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Maybe, I want her to do anything she wants, but I hope her interest in singing stays high.
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Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter. When you come close to sellin' out reconsider. Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance. And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
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And for the past 10 years Ive been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, theyre all about that bottom line. So its nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine.
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I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!
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And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.
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I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road.
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So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.
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I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.
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And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.
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