Charles Kelley Quotes
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Lady Antebellum will always be my focus.
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I love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and how they would sing it.
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In my career, I've always felt like all great things came at once, and when something goes bad, it always seems that everything else seems to start going bad.
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I've got a lot of little quirks and moments that - my wife, she knows exactly what to say and how to handle me, 'cause I can be hard to handle.
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We've become so successful that it's become a machine: There's a lot of people relying on you. You've got 100 people out on the road and working for you. You want to stay at the top.
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I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.
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When I come home and have a new song I've written, she gives me an honest critique. If my wife likes it, I know I have something.
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'The Driver' kind of set the tone for what I wanted to say, and lyrically, it especially did.
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Radio used to be dominated by Tom Petty and artists like that. If Tom Petty came out today, he'd be played on country radio - all that stuff would. I think the genre has opened itself up to more styles of country, and I think that's a good thing.
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I'm 6' 6''. It's hard to find golf clubs that fit you right and work right.
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One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.
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I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.
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I've always thought 'Southern Accents' would make an amazing country song. It's always spoken to me. I've always loved it. Every time I hear that song, it reminds me of my dad.
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With anything you do in life, there are days where you're worn out and you don't want to do it for a second.
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The country crowd just has fun.
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It's always cool to go back home to Augusta, especially during The Masters week.
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I think the key to marriage is find your best friend.
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We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.
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The perfect winter's night for me would be with all the family together. As you get a little older and everybody has their jobs and then families and kids, it definitely becomes harder to get everybody together at once.
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I love whiskey, and I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men,' so anything that Don Draper does, I like to do. But I want Don Draper to get back to where he was in the first season. I like him married and gallivanting around.
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If I am going to do something outside of Lady Antebellum, it's got to make a statement. Otherwise, why do it?
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It was a total dream of mine to have my voice on an album with Stevie Nicks.
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If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again.
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There's always expectation with a Lady A single.