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And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

Lee Ann Womack

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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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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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And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.
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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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But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.
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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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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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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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His smile brought back the best times, sweet memories of nights together... stirring up those old feelings that got me thinkin' bout forever.
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It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.
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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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I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences
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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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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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Never settle for the path of least resistance
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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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We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.
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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 think it is very important in this business to be an individual
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I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road.
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When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
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