Lee Ann Womack Quotes

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Lee Ann Womack

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 19, 1966

It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.

Lee Ann Womack

With this album, I tried not to think too much. If I heard a song that I loved, I promised myself I wouldn't over-think it. If I loved it and if I wanted to cut it, I would.

Lee Ann Womack

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

Lee Ann Womack

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

Lee Ann Womack

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.

Lee Ann Womack

I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is.

Lee Ann Womack

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.

Lee Ann Womack

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

Lee Ann Womack

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

Lee Ann Womack

And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.

Lee Ann Womack

So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others.

Lee Ann Womack

I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records.

Lee Ann Womack

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

Lee Ann Womack

But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.

Lee Ann Womack

And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about that bottom line. So it's nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine.

Lee Ann Womack

The satisfaction that I get from doing what I do is not what I thought. I thought it would be that I'd feel like a star, I'd feel important. But I don't.

Lee Ann Womack

The satisfaction comes because you work hard and it pays off. It is not as glamorous as I thought it would be, but, you know, I appreciate it more than I ever knew I would, and I love it more than I ever knew I would.

Lee Ann Womack

Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.

Lee Ann Womack

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

Lee Ann Womack

I want to reach as many people as I can.

Lee Ann Womack