Quotes by Keith Urban

About Keith Urban:

Keith Lionel Urban is a New Zealand-born Australian country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, entrepreneur and music competition judge. In 1991, he released a self-titled debut album, and charted four singles in Australia before moving to the United States the following year. He found work as a session guitarist before starting a band known as The Ranch, which recorded one studio album on Capitol Nashville and charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
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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

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 tha...

Keith Urban

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

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

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

Keith Urban

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

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

Keith Urban

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

Keith Urban

I tend to write better when I'm not touring.

Keith Urban

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

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

Keith Urban

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

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

Sometimes I just cry at random stuff!

Keith Urban

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

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

Keith Urban

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

Keith Urban

Day after day you find a way to make this grown man cry.

Keith Urban

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameKeith Urban
  • Descriptioncountry music singer from Australia
  • BornOctober 26, 1967
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionSinger