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I was an opening act for 10 years.

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Shelby Lynne
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 22
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Quantico
Virginia
Shelby Lynn Moorer
Opening
Years

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I love the live cut part of making records the surprises are the prizes.
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I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.
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Now I can make a thousand dollars a night at a club.
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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 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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If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.
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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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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 insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.
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I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.
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Ben [Peeler] and I have known each other for a decade. He trusts my crazy ideas and spontaneous combustion and he gets the players I want and knows the kind of personality players I like. He has taste that I trust and that to me is more important than any technical things.
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I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.
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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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My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.
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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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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.
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I write about what I know.
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I like strength. I depend on my own.
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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.
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