Top 33 Shelby Lynne Quotes

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

All I do is party.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I like strength. I depend on my own.

I write about what I know.

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

Sure I got a mouth on me.

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

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 was singing before I could talk.

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

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.

I like to make great albums.

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.

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.

I like rules that are broken.

I was an opening act for 10 years.

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

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

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

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.

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