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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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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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I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.
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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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It's time for artists to take their music back.
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I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.
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I like strength. I depend on my own.
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I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.
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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 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 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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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 was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.
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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'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 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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I was an opening act for 10 years.
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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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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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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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