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I write about what I know.

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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It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.
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I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.
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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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My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.
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I like strength. I depend on my own.
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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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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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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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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 have never had a problem letting a record go.Honestly when I'm making them, mixing them Honestly when I'm making them, mixing them.
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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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Now I can make a thousand dollars a night at a club.
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I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.
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It's time for artists to take their music back.
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I was an opening act for 10 years.
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I can't write about your pain I only know 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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If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.
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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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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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