Top 35 Quotes & Sayings by Keith Whitley

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American singer Keith Whitley.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Jackie Keith Whitley was an American country music singer and songwriter. During his career, Whitley released only two albums but charted 12 singles on the Billboard country charts, and 7 more after his death.

American - Singer | July 1, 1954 - May 9, 1989

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I had a rock and roll band as a kid. What I wanted to be in was a country band, but in Sandy Hook, Ky., you're hard-pressed to find a steel guitar player or a drummer.

Keith Whitley

Songs I do have to strike an emotional chord the first time I sing them.

Keith Whitley

I learned to do things the way the old-timers did.

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I keep progressing with each record, and that's a positive sign.

Keith Whitley

You have to come to terms with yourself as an artist and know what you do best.

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I don't remember ever not wanting to be a country singer. Even as a little kid, that was my dream.

Keith Whitley

They say country music stands for more than the rural life. It's about life, period, whether lived in a high-rise or a hollow. I don't think rural or urban has that much to do with it.

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Most of the things I sing in my songs, I've lived.

Keith Whitley

Everyone falls in love, everyone gets their heart broken.

Keith Whitley

For me, the past isn't deep and dark; I had a lot of fun I couldn't have had any other way.

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I believe in 'Hard Livin'.' The song has a lot of potential. I sang it on the road for about a year before I put it on an album. The crowds really seemed to like it.

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Even when I was 3 or 4 years old, I'd go out riding in the car with mom and dad, and I already knew all the songs off mom's Hank Williams and George Jones records by heart. I remember just sitting in the back seat and singing them at the top of my lungs.

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I got into bluegrass music when I was 14, as a way to get into a band. My brother and I had a band and our own radio show, and that's what was popular.

Keith Whitley

I was about 14, and I got hooked on the music of the Stanley Brothers.

Keith Whitley

I learned to love bluegrass, but my first love stayed hard country.

Keith Whitley

You may not hear much bluegrass on the surface of my music, but I feel the emotion I put in a song comes from bluegrass. Bluegrass taught me to interpret a song, not just sing it.

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Lorrie came along, which is the best thing that ever happened to me. Because of her, I straightened up my life.

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It's funny, but no matter how good an artist is, it's not until he stands on his own two feet and sticks to his guns that things are going to come together.

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I liked 'Ten Feet the first time I heard it and it became my first top 10.

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I don't remember ever not singing. It's just as natural as breathing for me.

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My manager, my band members, we're all good friends. You need that because a lot of times an artist will be so sheltered he will lose touch with what the fans want.

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Lyrics mean a lot to me, and I won't record a song unless I can feel it. That's something I learned from Carter Stanley. Even when he wasn't perfect technically, he got inside a song and sold it emotionally.

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It's not so uncommon for me to get so wrapped up in a song that I cry several times when I sing them. That's the difference between my music and some of the other folks.

Keith Whitley

On my first album nobody asked me for a lot of advice. It was a producer's album. We were sent the same type songs with stock melodies. It was my first album and I was happy to do about anything they'd ask me.

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I feel like I have to create the Keith Whitley sound. That doesn't mean I can't borrow from the people I grew up listening to, but it doesn't serve any purpose to sing the same kind of songs they sang. When you do that, it's going to come out sounding like an imitation, whether it's meant to or not.

Keith Whitley

We did the 'L.A. to Miami' album, with the song 'Miami, My Amy,' which really saved my life as far as confidence goes. It gave me a hit. But it wasn't really what I was about - and I think deep down inside I knew it, even if I didn't want to face it.

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When I came to Nashville, my personal life went to hell.

Keith Whitley

The whole deal with my music has been the emotional quality.

Keith Whitley

I've played the Opry before.

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I grew up listening to my mother's collection of Hank Williams, George Jones and Marty Robbins records.

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I did so many crazy things while drinking.

Keith Whitley

I laid my country music aside for quite a while... because bluegrass audiences didn't care to hear it. But it just kept haunting me.

Keith Whitley

I thought everybody had to drink to be in this business.

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Shortly after I started in bluegrass, Ricky Skaggs and I got together and the bluegrass career just snowballed. Being 15 or 16 and making good money playing music was pretty attractive.

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We had sold a lot of copies of the 'Miami' album without being racked by some of the big distributors.

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Top 35 Quotes & Sayings by Keith Whitley

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