Charles Kelley Quotes

#1. 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.

Charles Kelley

#2. 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.

Charles Kelley

#3. When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.

Robert Plant

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

Charles Kelley

#5. A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.

Linda Hogan

#6. 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.

Charles Kelley

#7. 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.

Charles Kelley

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

Charles Kelley

#9. I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.

Major Taylor

#10. It's very relaxing for me to sing. It's a good break from the hard training and the fighting.

Manny Pacquiao

#11. 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.

Charles Kelley

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

Charles Kelley

#13. 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!

Charles Kelley

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

Charles Kelley

#15. TEAMWORK: A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.

Justin Sewell

#16. 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.

Charles Kelley

#17. The country crowd just has fun.

Charles Kelley

#18. Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

Sarah Ruhl

#19. 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.

Charles Kelley

#20. 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.

Charles Kelley

#21. 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.

Charles Kelley

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

Charles Kelley

#23. 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.

Charles Kelley

#24. Wake up to think of words ... want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of sound and resonance.

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#25. This is what it is to learn programming. You get to know your useful tools, then you look around, and there are some handy new tools nearby and those tools show you the bottomless horror that was always right next to your bed.

Anonymous

#26. 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.

Charles Kelley

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

Charles Kelley