Best 40 quotes of Shelby Lynne on MyQuotes

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.

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.

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.

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 am very picky about my people and my beer.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

There's not anything I can fix, change, make better its out to the world. I'd like to say that I like my records but it's for reasons other than enjoyment, it's more like a notch on my revolver, one more down. I am proud of my work, yes but its accomplishment to me and another year of schooling,in making records it can always be better!

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.

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.