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 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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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.
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.
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I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
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When the mayor of Sao Paulo wanted to increase bus fare by 21 centavos in 2013, the country erupted in the largest mass protests in its history. It wasn't a dramatic hike - just nine cents - but a perfect symbol of the increasing burdens on the working poor, forced to fend with an inadequate system, insensitive to their plight.
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Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
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God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.
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I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.
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He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.
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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.
