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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
May
Deaths
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Songs
Parents
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I can't write about your pain I only know my own.
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I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.
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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.
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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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My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.
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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.
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I love the live cut part of making records the surprises are the prizes.
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I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.
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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.
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If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.
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It's time for artists to take their music back.
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I feel like records are moments in time, a modern moment that feels right then and it found its way to us then, that minute. We can all try and repeat records we have made that had success, but it's not possible.
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Music should be poor. Music should be with out air conditioning. That's just the way it is.
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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.
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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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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.
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I write about what I know.
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It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.
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I like rules that are broken.
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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.
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