Shelby Lynne famous quotes

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

#Ipods #Joints #Vinyl

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.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Believe #School #Guitar

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.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Unique #Effort #Privilege

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

#Artist

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

#Way #Pool #Resources

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.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Art #Believe #Thinking

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.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Running #Circles #Creating

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

#Taken #Years #Who I Am

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

#Thinking #Moments

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

#Air #Way #Poor

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.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Mean #People #Feel Good

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

#Trying #Killers

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

#Thinking #Feelings #Too Much

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

#Records #Wells #Deals

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

#Country #Alabama #Woods

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

#Stress #Parent #Individual

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.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Gun #Thinking #Daddy

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.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Way #Musician #Easier

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

#Country #Old School #School

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

#Band

I am very picky about my people and my beer.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Beer #People #Picky

I can't stand too long of a record.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Long #Records

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.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Careers #Firsts #Labels

I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Pain #Writing

I didn't go to college.
-- Shelby Lynne

#College

I don't feel like taking anybody's money.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Feels

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

#People #Telling The Truth #Surround

I write about what I know.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Writing

I was singing before I could talk.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Singing

I was an opening act for 10 years.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Years #Opening

I'm the audience first, and if you're gonna be a great performer, you need to be a great audience. So, I do music for me first, and whoever likes it likes it, and whoever doesn't -- well, it's just not for them.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Likes #Firsts #Needs

I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Choices #Misery

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

#Way

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

#Heart #Peaceful #Kind

I just don't conform very well.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Wells #Conform

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

#Labels

I like rules that are broken.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Broken

I like strength. I depend on my own.
-- Shelby Lynne

I like to make great albums.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Albums

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.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Song #Writing #Thinking

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

#Stars #Rocks #Rock N Roll

I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my life. I’m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.
-- Shelby Lynne

#Song #Writing #Emotion