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I was an opening act for 10 years.

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
Opening
Years

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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 write about what I know.
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If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.
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I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.
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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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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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It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.
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I can't write about your pain I only know my own.
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My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.
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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 just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.
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I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.
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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 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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The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.
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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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It's time for artists to take their music back.
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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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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 love the live cut part of making records the surprises are the prizes.
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