Top 52 Quotes & Sayings by Keith Urban
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Country seems to be finding a bigger audience. Certainly an audience out of the general country scene is finding me.
I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
Sometimes I just cry at random stuff!
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.
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.
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.
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!
They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.
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.
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.
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.
I tend to write better when I'm not touring.
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.
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.
My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.
I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.
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.
You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.
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.
At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.
I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.
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.
Someone said one time, 'If your marriage isn't your priority, you're not married,' and I thought, for me that's so true. So as long as I keep her as a priority, everything else sort of seems to work. And when I don't keep it as a priority, it's ... Jenga.
Everybody needs somebody sometimes.
The older I get the more I can see
How much he loved my mother and my brother and me
And he did the best that he could
And I only hope when I have my own family
That everyday I see a little more of my father in me.
Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.
Life is about holding on and letting go.
From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.
Days go by I can feel 'em flying like a hand out the window in the wind!
Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.
If it's a real dream it's uncrushable.
When you put your arms around me,
You let me know there's nothing in this world I can't do
I don't want to impress, I want to inspire.
If I knew what I was doing, I'd be doing it right now. I would be the best damn poet, silver words out of my mouth. My words might not be magic, but they cut straight to the truth. So if you need a lover and a friend, baby, I'm in.
It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.
Youre always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully theyre all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadnt done on the first one.
Take your records, take you freedom, take your memories, I dont need 'em. And take your cat, and leave my sweater, cause we've got nothing left to weather.
Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.
You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.
Let water wash our bodies clean, and love wash our souls.
There's no soul in perfection.
I'm grateful when anybody can start to have his or her limited perception of the genre open up a little bit. There's a lot of great music in the country genre that doesn't get heard because people say, 'Well, I don't like country.'
And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive.
Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.
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