Darius Rucker Quotations

I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

I work hard to let my wife know how much I love her. I try to do that every day.

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

I expect to make a career out of country music.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that Ive always wanted to make since I was a kid.

It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!

Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.

We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it.

I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.

I've known Tiger since he was 18. Tiger is a great guy. I am so happy for him right now.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

We can't thank Dave enough. He could call me if my wife was about to have a baby and tell me he needed tonight for his show and I'd find some way to get her to let me head to New York.

I'd work with Justin any time. I think he's a great artist. I think our voices would be perfect together, with my baritone and his tenor, we'd be awesome.

is always sold-out, and it's always a lot of fun. There's always something different.

Our sound is a combination of a lot of influences,

It definitely won't be a rock record, ... If I wanted to make a rock record, I'd just do one with Hootie.

I'm hoping the backlash is over. We've been going through that for the past eight years.

We realized instantly it was going to be like that. People wanted to compare it to what we'd d done before. But are we going to complain about selling 16 million records? I don't think so.

We wanted to have our own nice, small label that has respect in the industry. We're really looking forward to the ride with them.

We are grateful to our faithful fans and friends who helped us set a new donation record.

All the doors that I had to close. All the things I knew but I didn't know. Thank God for all I missed. 'Cause it led me here to this.

I am honored that they would include me in the Cabinet as a member and contributor.

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that.

When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.

My family lives a pretty normal life.

When I was asked if I wanted to perform on the Grand Ole Opry, I yelled, 'Are you kidding me?' I've been waiting for that my whole life. To be invited where so many of the greatest country artists have performed is an honor, and I still can't believe it has been bestowed on me. Just to stand in the circle where so many greats have stood-Hank Williams, Kitty Wells, I just couldn't believe it.

Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.

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Find something that makes you want to give and give and give 'til it hurts.

You gotta love and learn and learn to live.

You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give. You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.

We love to play. We're good at what we do,

Cracked Rear View' was a phenomenon. You look at the records you consider creative of the '90s and 'Cracked Rear View' sold more than all of them. That's just one of those things. That's just something else. It won't happen again. Now we just want to make the records, have our fan base and go on tour whenever we feel like playing.

People really seem to forget there's people in Bahrain or Saudi Arabia who are there for a year or whatever, ... In their hearts, they're there to protect the people of America and what we stand for.

On Valentine's day, I'm doing a show with an orchestra. We're doing a show with all standards for the Children's Hospital in Charleston.

And the age difference -- you've got women in their late 50s and ... kids just going into the sixth grade. The people that are Hootie fans are Hootie fans. They love us, and we love playing for them. We definitely don't do this for any other reason.

It was fun. We both got a kick out of it.

It was such a blur. All we saw was that the shows were getting bigger. It's like people say, a lot of it is a timing thing. We came out at the right time.

It's more relaxing after 10 years of thinking that we'd never get a record deal. And after doing as well as the first record did, we feel like we can make records whenever we want. That's the biggest change for us as a band.

Dave LaChapelle talked me into it, ... I thought it was going to be no big deal, probably not too many people would see it. Then I was having a party during the Daytona 500, and it was the first commercial on it. I told my wife, 'Honey, I think I'm in trouble.'

I turned to my wife and said, 'Honey, I'm in trouble.'

Seriously, I thought it would be one of those things that would just come and go,

I love it. I'd do it again any time, and I'm sure we'll do it for other records. It was awesome. We met cool people and got some really good songs out of it.

If one of our faces wasn't there, we'd probably quit.