Latest Shelby Lynne Quotes from Interviews

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• 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!

  Shelby Lynne

  Years, Accomplishment, Records

  Source: innocentwords.com

• 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.

  Shelby Lynne

  Song, Writing, Records

  Source: innocentwords.com

• 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.

  Shelby Lynne

  Believe, Guitar, Fire

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

• I wasn't encouraged to write just stand there and sing and I never thought I was a writer. I always figured if I couldn't write something as good as "He Stopped Loving Her Today," then what's the point?

  Shelby Lynne

  Writing, Today, Ifs

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

• 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.

  Shelby Lynne

  Couple, Years, Play

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

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

  Shelby Lynne

  Thinking, Drawing, Relax

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

• 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.

  Shelby Lynne

  Night, Love Is, People

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

• 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.

  Shelby Lynne

  Records, Mixing, Problem

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

• 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.

  Shelby Lynne

  Trying, Records, Way

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

• 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.

  Shelby Lynne

  Crazy, Player, Ideas

  Source: innocentwords.com

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

  Shelby Lynne

  Cutting, Records, Surprise

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

• 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.

  Shelby Lynne

  Song, Pieces, Lasts

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

• 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.

  Shelby Lynne

  Fighting, Night, Thinking

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

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

  Shelby Lynne

  Bayou, Wanted

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

• 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.

  Shelby Lynne

  Dark, Night, Mind

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

• 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.

  Shelby Lynne

  Song, Singing, Trying

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

• 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.

  Shelby Lynne

  Song, Play, Guy

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.