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Shelby Lynne [1968-0] American

Rank: 103
Musician, Singer-songwriter

Shelby Lynne is an American singer and songwriter. The success of her 1999 album I Am Shelby Lynne led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, even though she had, by that time, been active in the music industry for some time.

Poetry, Sad, Strength

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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.		101
It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.		102
I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.		103
I like strength. I depend on my own.	Strength	104
I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.		105
I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.	Poetry	106
The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.		107
I was singing before I could talk.		108
I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.		109
I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.		110
Sure I got a mouth on me.		111
It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.		112
I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.		113
I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.		114
All I do is party.		115
I like rules that are broken.		116
I like to make great albums.		117
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.		118
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.		119
I write about what I know.		120
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.		121
You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.		122
Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.		123
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.		124
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.		125
My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.		126
If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.		201
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.		202
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.		203
It's time for artists to take their music back.		204
I didn't go to college.		205
I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.		206
It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.		207
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.	Sad	208
I was an opening act for 10 years.		209
I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.		210
I can't stand too long of a record.		211
Sometimes a song that didn't make one record will stay in my head for so long and just won't go away. I take that as a hint to keep 'em close and not forget about them.		212
I don't feel like taking anybody's money.		213
I just don't conform very well.		214
I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.		215

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