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.

Keith Urban

• Music
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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• 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.

  

  LaToya London
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• 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.

  

  K. Flay
  • World
  • Music
  • Chaos

• 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.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Different
  • Country
  • Real

• Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Take

• To me, country songs are simple.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Me
  • Simple

• Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Country
  • Learn

• 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.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Clean

• I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Heart
  • Game
  • Desire

• 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.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • War
  • Democracy

• 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.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Country
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Society
  • Wife

• After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Children

• Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Way
  • Sound

• Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the middle east is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• The ancients, even though they believed in destiny, believed primarily in nature, in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Nature
  • Wall
  • Destiny

• I don't think I'm going to be back on 'This Is Us.' I think that Uncle Ricky had his moment; he did what he had to do.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Uncle

• 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.

  

  Keith Urban
  • Music
  • Country
  • Heart