Keith Whitley

Singer

1954-07-01

Quotes by Keith Whitley

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

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

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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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• 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.

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