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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.

Shelby Lynne

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Shelby Lynne
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 22
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Quantico
Virginia
Shelby Lynn Moorer
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Think
Parents
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Woman
Song
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True
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Deaths

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The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.
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I write about what I know.
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I still believe in the old-school show thing no frills, no fancy equipment just a guitar and some amps and some drums, and throw it out there and do it the best you can in a live sense, because it's easy to make records. But the live show is where you really show if you've got the balls to do it.
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I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.
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I like rules that are broken.
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It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.
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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.
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I was an opening act for 10 years.
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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.
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If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.
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Now I can make a thousand dollars a night at a club.
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What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time.
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I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.
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