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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. - Keith Whitley
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I had a rock and roll band as a kid. What I wanted to be in was a country band, but in Sandy Hook, Ky., you're hard-pressed to find a steel guitar player or a drummer. - Keith Whitley
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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. - Keith Whitley
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I was about 14, and I got hooked on the music of the Stanley Brothers. - Keith Whitley
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For me, the past isn't deep and dark; I had a lot of fun I couldn't have had any other way. - Keith Whitley
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I feel like I have to create the Keith Whitley sound. That doesn't mean I can't borrow from the people I grew up listening to, but it doesn't serve any purpose to sing the same kind of songs they sang. When you do that, it's going to come out sounding like an imitation, whether it's meant to or not. - Keith Whitley
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I thought everybody had to drink to be in this business. - Keith Whitley
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Lyrics mean a lot to me, and I won't record a song unless I can feel it. That's something I learned from Carter Stanley. Even when he wasn't perfect technically, he got inside a song and sold it emotionally. - Keith Whitley
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Lorrie came along, which is the best thing that ever happened to me. Because of her, I straightened up my life. - Keith Whitley
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I learned to love bluegrass, but my first love stayed hard country. - Keith Whitley
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Shortly after I started in bluegrass, Ricky Skaggs and I got together and the bluegrass career just snowballed. Being 15 or 16 and making good money playing music was pretty attractive. - Keith Whitley
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You may not hear much bluegrass on the surface of my music, but I feel the emotion I put in a song comes from bluegrass. Bluegrass taught me to interpret a song, not just sing it. - Keith Whitley
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We did the 'L.A. to Miami' album, with the song 'Miami, My Amy,' which really saved my life as far as confidence goes. It gave me a hit. But it wasn't really what I was about - and I think deep down inside I knew it, even if I didn't want to face it. - Keith Whitley
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When I came to Nashville, my personal life went to hell. - Keith Whitley
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I learned to do things the way the old-timers did. - Keith Whitley
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I don't remember ever not singing. It's just as natural as breathing for me. - Keith Whitley
#Breathing
#Just
#Me
#Remember
#Singing
Everyone falls in love, everyone gets their heart broken. - Keith Whitley
#Broken
#Everyone
#Falls
#Heart
#Love
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