Top 50 Shelby Lynne Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “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

3. “I am very picky about my people and my beer.”

— Shelby Lynne

4. “I just don’t conform very well.”

— Shelby Lynne

5. “You can’t roll a joint on an iPod, buy vinyl.”

— Shelby Lynne

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

— Shelby Lynne

7. “I can’t write about your pain; I only know my own.”

— Shelby Lynne

8. “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

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

— Shelby Lynne

10. “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

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

— Shelby Lynne

12. “I can’t stand too long of a record.”

— Shelby Lynne

13. “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

14. “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

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

— Shelby Lynne

16. “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

17. “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

18. “If you think too much about something, you’re not feeling it.”

— Shelby Lynne

19. “I’m comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.”

— Shelby Lynne

20. “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

21. “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

22. “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

23. “I’d like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.”

— Shelby Lynne

24. “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.”

— Shelby Lynne

25. “I like strength. I depend on my own.”

— Shelby Lynne

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

— Shelby Lynne

27. “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

28. “I was singing before I could talk.”

— Shelby Lynne

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

— Shelby Lynne

30. “I have always wanted to see what the vibe was like and I was right It’s on the Vermillion Bayou.”

— Shelby Lynne

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

— Shelby Lynne

32. “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

33. “I didn’t go to college.”

— Shelby Lynne

34. “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

35. “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

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

— Shelby Lynne

37. “Music should be poor. Music should be with out air conditioning. That’s just the way it is.”

— Shelby Lynne

38. “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

39. “I was an opening act for 10 years.”

— Shelby Lynne

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

— Shelby Lynne

41. “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

42. “I don’t feel like taking anybody’s money.”

— Shelby Lynne

43. “It’s time for artists to take their music back.”

— Shelby Lynne

44. “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

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

— Shelby Lynne

46. “Now I can make a thousand dollars a night at a club.”

— Shelby Lynne

47. “I like rules that are broken.”

— Shelby Lynne

48. “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

49. “I write about what I know.”

— Shelby Lynne

50. “I like to make great albums.”

— Shelby Lynne