Shelby Lynne Quotes

You can't roll a joint on an iPod, buy vinyl.

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.

Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.

I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

I am very picky about my people and my beer.

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.

I like rules that are broken.

I didn't go to college.

I like to make great albums.

I have always wanted to see what the vibe was like and I was right It's on the Vermillion Bayou.

Music should be poor. Music should be with out air conditioning. That's just the way it is.

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.

Now I can make a thousand dollars a night at a club.

If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

I love the live cut part of making records the surprises are the prizes.

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.

I can't stand too long of a record.

I was an opening act for 10 years.

I was singing before I could talk.

I write about what I know.

I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.

It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.

I never sing a song more than twice because my fear of waning excitement for a piece is part of my troubles. I so rely on vibe, energy and emotions that the technical part occurs to me last.

The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.

It's time for artists to take their music back.

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.

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.

I have my songs ready in my head, gather the guys, play it and then let them go with it. [The music] finds its way, we do what the music says to do......the song is the producer.

I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that way.

The world has changed a lot since I started making records.I used to go into a studio and there were songs there, chosen for me to see if I liked them. I wasn't encouraged to write.

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.

I just don't conform very well.

I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

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.

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

What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time.

My drawings are another kind of music for me...they relax me and I think they all connect somehow.

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

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.

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.

I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.

I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

I don't feel like taking anybody's money.