Charles Kelley

Musician

United States

1862 - Present

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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
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
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
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
I love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and how they would sing it.
Charles Kelley
One thing I love about the Grammys is that they love to recognize old, risky music.
Charles Kelley
I think the key to marriage is find your best friend.
Charles Kelley
I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.
Charles Kelley
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
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