Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
All Quotes by author - Keith Urban
" A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for. "
Love
Song
Good
" At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact. "
Making
End
Impact
" Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do. "
Because
Me
Important
" Country seems to be finding a bigger audience. Certainly an audience out of the general country scene is finding me. "
Bigger
Audience
Country
" Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had. "
Life
Bus
Myself
" I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up. "
People
Musicians
Me
" I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language! "
Language
You
Two
" I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else. "
Beginnings
Talent
Got
" I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs. "
Radio
Songs
Huge Fan
" I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio. "
Comfortable
Role
More
" It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record. "
You
Over
Try
" I tend to write better when I'm not touring. "
Write
Better
Touring
" I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily. "
People
Life
Think
" 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. "
Place
Think
Heart
" I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does. "
People
Listen
Know
" I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music. "
People
Think
Amazing
" It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long. "
Year
You
Writing
" It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation. "
Loved
Doing
Every Day
" I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think. "
Life
My Life
Quiet
" I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work. "
Name
Never
Body
" My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it. "
Collection
Country
Exposed
" Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop! "
Kind
Me
Keep
" Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me! "
You
Me
Go
" Sometimes I just cry at random stuff! "
Cry
Stuff
Sometimes
" There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with. "
Creative
You
Time
" The records in the house I really remember were, well, Glen Campbell's 'Wichita Lineman' and 'Galveston.' Even as a kid, I knew these songs were glorious. My dad also had records by Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Waylon Jennings, and then there was also the Eagles and Don Henley. Anything Texas, which includes Don Henley, was big. "
Pride
Big
House
" The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it's a dangerous game for a lot of people. "
Dangerous
People
Game
" They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio. "
Like
Writing
Studio
" You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life. "
Life Experiences
My Life
You
" You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one. "
You
Wish
Up
Check our other websites:
BookDark
MusicDark