Quotes by Keith Whitley - Page 1

I've played the Opry before.
Keith Whitley /
Played
Opry
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I did so many crazy things while drinking.
Keith Whitley /
Crazy Things
Drinking
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When I came to Nashville, my personal life went to hell.
Keith Whitley /
Nashville
Personal Life
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Everyone falls in love, everyone gets their heart broken.
Keith Whitley /
Love Everyone
Falls
Heart Broken
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I keep progressing with each record, and that's a positive sign.
Keith Whitley /
Progressing
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I learned to love bluegrass, but my first love stayed hard country.
Keith Whitley /
Bluegrass
First Love
Stayed
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I was about 14, and I got hooked on the music of the Stanley Brothers.
Keith Whitley /
Hooked
Stanley
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Songs I do have to strike an emotional chord the first time I sing them.
Keith Whitley /
Time First Time First
Chord
Strike
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For me, the past isn't deep and dark; I had a lot of fun I couldn't have had any other way.
Keith Whitley /
Any Other Way
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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 /
Country Singer
Little Kid
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We had sold a lot of copies of the 'Miami' album without being racked by some of the big distributors.
Keith Whitley /
Copies
Distributors
Miami
Racked
Sold
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I grew up listening to my mother's collection of Hank Williams, George Jones and Marty Robbins records.
Keith Whitley /
Marty
Hank
Williams
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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.
Keith Whitley /
Life Best Me
Straightened
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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 /
Bluegrass
Haunting
Aside
Music Me Care
Country Music
Laid
Quite A While
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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 /
Bluegrass
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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.
Keith Whitley /
Sticks
Guns
Stands
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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.
Keith Whitley /
Band Members
Good Friends
Sheltered
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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.
Keith Whitley /
Crowds
About A Year
Sang
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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 /
Drummer
Guitar Player
Hook
Rock And Roll
Sandy
Steel
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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 /
Uncommon
Music Me Song
Wrapped
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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.
Keith Whitley /
Bluegrass
Music Me Song
Interpret
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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.
Keith Whitley /
Hollow
Urban
Country Music
Life Music Country
Rural
Stands
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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.
Keith Whitley /
Attractive
Bluegrass
Good Money Music
Ricky
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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.
Keith Whitley /
Carter
Stanley
Inside
Me Feel I Can
Me Feel Song
Emotionally
Technically
Record
Sold
Unless
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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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Melodies
Stock
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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.
Keith Whitley /
Amy
Deep Down
Miami
Saved
Life Face Me
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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.
Keith Whitley /
Lungs
Mom And Dad
Riding
Seat
Hank
Williams
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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 /
Imitation
Borrow
Sang
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