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Lee Ann Womack
American
Musician
About the author
A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things.
Lee Ann Womack,
American
Musician
#Career
#Business
I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.
Lee Ann Womack,
American
Musician
#May
#Music
I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.
Lee Ann Womack,
American
Musician
#Thinking
#Country
#Idea
#Music
#Country music
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,
American
Musician
#Expectations
But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.
Lee Ann Womack,
American
Musician
#Music
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,
American
Musician
#Love
#People
#Being
#Artists
#Music
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,
American
Musician
#Time
#People
#Country
#Idea
#Music
#Country music
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,
American
Musician
#Love
#People
#Years
#Play
#Past
#Numbers
#Music
I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!
Lee Ann Womack,
American
Musician
#Love
#Computer
#Internet
And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.
Lee Ann Womack,
American
Musician
#Love
#Artists
#Hate
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,
American
Musician
#Right
#Home
#Being
#Mom
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,
American
Musician
#Want
#Success
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,
American
Musician
#Song
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,
American
Musician
#Country
Well, probably having to be away from home. When I come back I kind of feel like there's a routine going on that I'm not a part of, so that can be difficult.
Lee Ann Womack,
American
Musician
#Home
#Routine
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,
American
Musician
#Thought
#Satisfaction
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,
American
Musician
#Love
#Work
#Thought
#Satisfaction
So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.
Lee Ann Womack,
American
Musician
#Time
#Music
#Guitar
I don't go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I'm just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed.
Lee Ann Womack,
American
Musician
#Home
#Night
#Bed
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,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Country
#Singing
#Music
#Country music
I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not.
Lee Ann Womack,
American
Musician
#World
#End
I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road.
Lee Ann Womack,
American
Musician
#Road
I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.
Lee Ann Womack,
American
Musician
#People
#Music
I want to reach as many people as I can.
Lee Ann Womack,
American
Musician
#Want
#People
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,
American
Musician
#Want
#Success
I think it is very important in this business to be an individual.
Lee Ann Womack,
American
Musician
#Business
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,
American
Musician
#Past
#Listening
And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.
Lee Ann Womack,
American
Musician
#Talk
#Home
#Girls
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,
American
Musician
#Guitar
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,
American
Musician
#Work
#Years
#Fact