Keith Urban Quotes
I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
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As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
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As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
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I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.
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There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
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After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
Gail Devers
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When I'm in professional mode, I do the best job that I can.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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For me, it being Queen is a responsibility that does not include abdication. It is a task one has been given and taken upon oneself, and one does not relinquish it because it would perhaps be convenient personally to be rid of some of it.
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I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we bring a lot, although we like to think we don't.
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I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.
