Keith Urban famous quotes

Everyday I see a little more of my father in me..
-- Keith Urban

#Father #Everyday #Littles

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone..
-- Keith Urban

#Break Up #Running #Long

I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!
-- Keith Urban

#Taken #Kids #Vocabulary

I don't want to impress, I want to inspire.
-- Keith Urban

#Inspire #Want #Impress

Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.
-- Keith Urban

#Artist #Truth Comes Out

I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.
-- Keith Urban

#Song #Apology #Fans

There's no soul in perfection.
-- Keith Urban

#Perfection #Soul

You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.
-- Keith Urban

#Reflection #Romance #Way

Country seems to be finding a bigger audience. Certainly an audience out of the general country scene is finding me.
-- Keith Urban

#Country #Scene #Bigger

There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.
-- Keith Urban

#Song #Thinking #Long

Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me!
-- Keith Urban

#Asking #Haiti #Red

At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.
-- Keith Urban

#Impact #The End Of The Day #Ends

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.
-- Keith Urban

#Beautiful #Song #Thinking

Days go by I can feel 'em flying like a hand out the window in the wind!
-- Keith Urban

#Hands #Wind #Flying

Youre always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully theyre all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadnt done on the first one.
-- Keith Urban

#Wish #Different #Done

You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.
-- Keith Urban

#Different #Records #Life Experience

I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.
-- Keith Urban

#Love Is #Roles #Littles

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.
-- Keith Urban

#Song #Writing #Thinking

It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.
-- Keith Urban

#Artist #Hands #Doe

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.
-- Keith Urban

#Country #Father #Records

Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.
-- Keith Urban

#Lost #Touring #Bus

I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.
-- Keith Urban

#Artist #Raw Talent #Talent

I tend to write better when I'm not touring.
-- Keith Urban

#Writing #Touring

I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.
-- Keith Urban

#Song #Names #Titles

Let water wash our bodies clean, and love wash our souls.
-- Keith Urban

#Inspirational #Water #Soul

A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.
-- Keith Urban

#Song #Good Life #Life Changing

I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.
-- Keith Urban

#Art #Thinking #People

Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.
-- Keith Urban

#Kids #Nashville #Wanted

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.
-- Keith Urban

#Thinking #Vanity #People

The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it's a dangerous game for a lot of people.
-- Keith Urban

#Reality #Games #People

Take your records, take you freedom, take your memories, I dont need 'em. And take your cat, and leave my sweater, cause we've got nothing left to weather.
-- Keith Urban

#Memories #Cat #Weather

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.
-- Keith Urban

#Evil #Temptation #Matter

Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!
-- Keith Urban

#Running #Distance #Long

When you put your arms around me, You let me know there's nothing in this world I can't do
-- Keith Urban

#Country #Song #World

Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.
-- Keith Urban

#Who I Am #Important #My Family

I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.
-- Keith Urban

#Thinking #Quiet #Kind

If I knew what I was doing, I'd be doing it right now. I would be the best damn poet, silver words out of my mouth. My words might not be magic, but they cut straight to the truth. So if you need a lover and a friend, baby, I'm in.
-- Keith Urban

#Baby #Cutting #Magic

I'm grateful when anybody can start to have his or her limited perception of the genre open up a little bit, ... There's a lot of great music in the country genre that doesn't get heard because people say, 'Well, I don't like country.
-- Keith Urban

#Country #Grateful #People

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.
-- Keith Urban

#Country #Heart #Thinking

...And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive...
-- Keith Urban

#Broken Heart #Alive #Lost

Life is about holding on and letting go.
-- Keith Urban

#Letting Go #Holding On #Life Is

The older I get the more I can see How much he loved my mother and my brother and me And he did the best that he could And I only hope when I have my own family That everyday I see a little more of my father in me.
-- Keith Urban

#Mother #Brother #Dad

If it's a real dream it's uncrushable.
-- Keith Urban

#Dream #Real

Sometimes I just cry at random stuff!
-- Keith Urban

#Stuff #Sometimes #Cry

I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.
-- Keith Urban

#People #Mentor #Wish

Someone said one time, 'If your marriage isn't your priority, you're not married,' and I thought, for me that's so true. So as long as I keep her as a priority, everything else sort of seems to work. And when I don't keep it as a priority, it's ... Jenga.
-- Keith Urban

#Long #Priorities #Married