35 Quotes by Keith Whitley

When I came to Nashville, my personal life went to hell.

Most of the things I sing in my songs, I've lived.

On my first album nobody asked me for a lot of advice. It was a producer's album. We were sent the same type songs with stock melodies. It was my first album and I was happy to do about anything they'd ask me.

You have to come to terms with yourself as an artist and know what you do best.

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.

I thought everybody had to drink to be in this business.

My manager, my band members, we're all good friends. You need that because a lot of times an artist will be so sheltered he will lose touch with what the fans want.

Everyone falls in love, everyone gets their heart broken.

I was about 14, and I got hooked on the music of the Stanley Brothers.