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The country crowd just has fun.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Country
Crowds
Fun
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Lady Antebellum will always be my focus.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Lady
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There's always expectation with a Lady A single.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Expectation
Lady
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I think the key to marriage is find your best friend.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Best Friend
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I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Ballads
Song
Tempo
Gravitate
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It's hard to make great art when you've got too much pressure.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Great Art
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I'm a real fan of that Foster the People song 'Pumped Up Kicks.'
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
People
Real
Song
Foster
Pumped
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One of Lady Antebellum's first big tours was opening up for Kenny Chesney.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Opening
Tours
Lady
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I'm 6' 6''. It's hard to find golf clubs that fit you right and work right.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Clubs
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It was a total dream of mine to have my voice on an album with Stevie Nicks.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Stevie
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I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Football
Golf
Lying
Lie
Ton
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It's always cool to go back home to Augusta, especially during The Masters week.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Masters
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One thing I love about the Grammys is that they love to recognize old, risky music.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Grammys
Risky
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'The Driver' kind of set the tone for what I wanted to say, and lyrically, it especially did.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Tone
Driver
Lyrically
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That's a different side of the brain going into the studio, as opposed to doing a live show, obviously.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Opposed
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We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Drank
Rich People
Royal
Stars
Whiskey
Rock Stars
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Want
Worn
Worn Out
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If I am going to do something outside of Lady Antebellum, it's got to make a statement. Otherwise, why do it?
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Lady
Statement
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I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Success Music Me
Expectation
Lady
Spoke
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Memorable
Theme
Nights
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I never want to cut music ever again that I'm just kind of into, because we definitely didn't do that in the beginning.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
In The Beginning
Just Kind
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Albums
Pressure
Want
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When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Granted
Taking Things For Granted
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With Lady Antebellum, there's always pressure. It's hard for commerce not to rear its ugly head when you're making decisions.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Commerce
Making Decisions
Lady
Rear
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When I come home and have a new song I've written, she gives me an honest critique. If my wife likes it, I know I have something.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Critique
Home Me Wife
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I've got a lot of little quirks and moments that - my wife, she knows exactly what to say and how to handle me, 'cause I can be hard to handle.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Handle
Exactly What
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In my career, I've always felt like all great things came at once, and when something goes bad, it always seems that everything else seems to start going bad.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Great Things
Everything Else
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To me, the best music always comes when - it sounds cliche, but you just try to block out the noise and try to not have any pressure with it and take your time.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Block
Noise
Time Best Music
Best Time Music
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Brother
Garage
Growing Up
Hippie
Jam
Older Brother
Opening
Adult
Cover
Gig
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Hilarious
Flattering
Narcissist
Seeing
Thinking
Wife
Youtube
Covers
Hundreds
Literally
Thinks
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I've always thought 'Southern Accents' would make an amazing country song. It's always spoken to me. I've always loved it. Every time I hear that song, it reminds me of my dad.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Time Amazing Dad
Reminds
Spoken
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Brutal
Giving
People
Done People Feel
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We've become so successful that it's become a machine: There's a lot of people relying on you. You've got 100 people out on the road and working for you. You want to stay at the top.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Relying
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Brittany
Justin
Kissing
Replicate
Spears
Trying
Wife
Justin Timberlake
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Men
Mad
Mad Men
Want
Whiskey
Big Fan
Season
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When you're making a record - and I've never said this to anybody, but it's true - when you're making a record, and you go, 'Man, this might win a Grammy!' you feel that level of confidence when you're making a record.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Grammy
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Jobs
Kids
Harder
Winter
Family Together Me
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Country
Genre
Petty
Thinking
Dominated
Good Thing
Opened
Styles
Tom
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There's definitely been some songs in the past that we've put out, and it was purely us going, 'Okay, we think radio will play this. We think this will be a hit. This will be big for the show,' and all this stuff. But it's like, do you really believe in it?
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Purely
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Country
Craving
Selling
Song
Thinking
People Feel See
Singer Songwriter
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Mom
Brother
Country
Country Singer
Dave
Eagles
Southern
Big Fan
Brothers
Singer
Hillary
Influences
Linda
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Dots
Hardest Thing
Radio
Song
Thinking
Connect
Several
The Hardest Thing
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If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Barometer
Careers
Disappointed
Song
Years
Undoubtedly
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Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, and a week later she came over. Instantaneously we had this chemistry.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Chemistry
Dave
Nashville
Me Night People
Hillary
Hustling
Instantaneously
Randomly
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I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someone like Josh Turner and then turn around and be a big fan of someone like Taylor Swift because, at the end of the day, it's all about those songs. I feel like country music has the best songwriting and the best songs of any genre.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Country
Genre
Josh
Song
Songwriting
Thinking
Traditional
Turner
Big Fan
Country Music
End Of The Day
Swift
Taylor
Taylor Swift
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We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Becoming
Buying
Country
Fans
Long
Offense
Pop Music
Records
Rock Music
Rocks
Speak
Love Music Long
Coming
End Of The Day
Gonna
Influences
Rock
Pull
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One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.
Charles Kelley / Singer-Songwriter
Thanksgiving
Morning
Brother
Memorable
Memories
Pounds
Annual
Ate
Brothers
Contest
Equally
Gained
Throughout
Weighed
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