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It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

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
Radio
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Music
Hard
Work

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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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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 was an opening act for 10 years.
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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 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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I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.
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I like rules that are broken.
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I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.
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If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.
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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'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.
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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 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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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 like strength. I depend on my own.
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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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It's time for artists to take their music back.
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