Charles Kelley Quotes

#1. I'm a real fan of that Foster the People song 'Pumped Up Kicks.'

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#2. My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.

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#3. With anything you do in life, there are days where you're worn out and you don't want to do it for a second.

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#4. I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.

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#5. I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.

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#6. We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.

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#7. The perfect winter's night for me would be with all the family together. As you get a little older and everybody has their jobs and then families and kids, it definitely becomes harder to get everybody together at once.

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#8. The country crowd just has fun.

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#9. I see too many celebrity kids who can't sing. If you don't have it, give it up, because people are brutal. I never want my kids to feel like they have to live up to what I've done.

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#10. I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that's why you see country radio growing and albums selling: People are craving a little more of the singer-songwriter stuff going on in country.

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#11. We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.

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#12. Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!

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#13. That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you could live them forever.

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#14. Radio used to be dominated by Tom Petty and artists like that. If Tom Petty came out today, he'd be played on country radio - all that stuff would. I think the genre has opened itself up to more styles of country, and I think that's a good thing.

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#15. That's a different side of the brain going into the studio, as opposed to doing a live show, obviously.

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#16. My wife thinks I'm a narcissist, but I just think it's hilarious going on YouTube and seeing these covers. There are so many of them - literally hundreds! It's flattering.

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#17. We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

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#18. I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.

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#19. I love whiskey, and I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men,' so anything that Don Draper does, I like to do. But I want Don Draper to get back to where he was in the first season. I like him married and gallivanting around.

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