Kenny Chesney Quotations

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

I'm like a shark. I've got to be constantly moving.

I think there is a part of life that I'm missing.

My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.

I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper.

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

People who can't kiss had everything given to them.

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm a helluva kisser.

I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road.

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

I'm so hands-on, from the color of my tour bus to what I eat for dinner at 5 or the way the lights are hung.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'

Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape.

The last couple of years I've been on an empty tank. And that's gotta change.

I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with.

I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

I would like to be married and have kids. I would like to do that... Yes, I could see me settling down at some point.

It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

In all the years that I've been doing this, I've never launched a tour and launched an album at basically the same time. Doing one of those things is enough!

Believe it or not, I want to keep growing my audience.

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.

So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.

Things that made me happy five, six years ago don't make me happy anymore.

Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.

I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

I remember making up songs in my head.

I want to spend more time with my family.

I'm pretty firm in my sexuality and my love for women.

I've gotten to meet so many people who've inspired me as a human being.

My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I was. They knew the songs, but they didn't know me.

This is a bit of curveball, but people who are really good kissers never have anything given to them.

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.

It's not just in my industry... everything is so sensationalized that there's not a lot of heart and soul in a lot of things there used to be heart and soul in.

I was at the Academy of Country Music Awards and my first record had just come out. Buck Owens walked up to me, told me he really liked my record and said, 'I believe in your talent. I believe you're three minutes ? one hit song ? from being a big star and finding your own path.' Well, two years ago, Buck walked over to me and said, 'It looks like you got those three minutes, didn't you?' You found six, nine, 12 and 15 of them.' And he told me he was proud of me.

I was so tired that I didn't want to be there, for the first time in 12 years,

I am incredibly happy. I may well be the luckiest man alive. To be so in love with someone who is so perfect for me. It's just hard to imagine that I'm not going to wake up.

I'm all right. I'm good. There have been better times, but I'll be OK.

Funny story, ... We actually forgot we were recording these songs until the day before we were supposed to start. That afternoon, we decided on the songs, learned them, rewrote them, scrapped them, rewrote them again and then recorded them the next day. It was the most fun we've ever had in the studio!

He's a school teacher in the Knoxville school system and has been for a long time. And even though I didn't live with my dad, and mom says we're just alike, talk alike, walk alike, and we definitely look a lot alike...but he's very, very supportive of what I'm doing. One thing that dad did, even though I wasn't living with him, he helped me pay for college and that was a really cool thing,

(Kenny is) an artist who has the ability to captivate millions with songs that are honest, heartfelt and entertaining. He is a superstar, yes, but he is a songwriter first.

I think it is important for this record to finally get out to remind people I'm not in tabloids for a living. It comes with the territory right now and I understand it, but I'm looking forward to getting back to the music, because that's what is most important and what got me here in the first place.

I was getting . . . hey, do we see a pattern here? ... I was getting out of another relationship at the time and I thought, 'What is going on? Should I marry this person or not?' In the bridge of the song, it says, 'Maybe I'll settle down, get married/ Or stay single and stay free/ Which road I'll travel is still a mystery to me.' But I realized I didn't have to make that decision in that moment. I realized I could sit there, dangle my feet in the water and have another beer.

When I go pick up a record, anybody's record, and put it in a CD player, I want to be taken on an emotional rollercoaster ride. I want to feel, I want to laugh, I want to cry, I want to remember somebody, I want to be moved some way.

We were wild, we were crazy, we were mostly young.

When she brought that song to me, I felt like I had something to wrap the rest of the record around, ... Who You'd Be Today was the universal song that I didn't have that I now had, and I was able to go from there and find a few other things that were pieces of the puzzle.

wrap the rest of the album around, a song so universally identifiable that it would make the album have more of a foundation.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

Be As You Are (Songs From an Old Blue Chair).

now he seems to think he can tell Renee what to do, what to wear, where to go and who to see.

This is an incredibly sad time. . . . I just hope everyone can respect the privacy that I know Renee has already asked for.

It's awesome to me the number of people who don't really know who you are, but who're finding this music now and are curious, and my attitude is always to let people have a sense of who you are, so they know where this music and these songs come from. Because it is my life, or the life of people I know.

It's a funny thing about these kinda towns. They may not be big or flashy, but they're like where I come from: real basic, pretty simple and all heart. The people that live in those places, that come from those kinds of towns, they remind you about everything that's good about folks, so it's great to be able to start our next leg right smack in the middle of it all.

It's good, ... It's been up and down, but it's good.

I'm glad to know that that can happen. That that exists. And we really still care about each other a lot, ... The Road and the Radio.

I made a decision about a year ago that I was just gonna try to feel and look the best I possibly could. Does it help me sing any better? No. Does it help me pick any better songs? No...

I need it all and I need it now' was my mentality before. I used to rush everything to get it done.

I may well be the luckiest man alive.

I hit everything so hard this year. I had the biggest tour I've ever done, I had a record to finish that was real important to me, and, of course, I had something new in my personal life, and I was trying to do that, too. It really ended up being too much. At some point, I just got exhausted. I'd go from the road to the studio and back to the road, and it was that cycle all summer.

I really didn't think anybody was going to beat Usher.

I didn't need more fame or money. I needed more heart.

I work hard but I play hard.

When I try to brush the road dust off of me and untangle all the wires in my head, I'm usually surrounded by music on a boat. But that's not how I wake up every day.

When old Bobby does Elvis, you swear it's the real mccoy. Another Friday night in the life of a country boy.

I live on a boat two months out of the year, and if I did not have that then I don't know how I'd be able to handle all this.... I am a very intense person on stage. I have to remember why I am there, what I am doing. You can spend all day backstage preparing for the show and lose sight of why you are doing this. Off stage, I am a very simple kind of guy. I live my life in flip-flops.

There's this emotion we all feel of being overwhelmed at times, feeling that you can't get ahead. For me it's self-imposed because I'm so driven and I'm always going from project to project.

I'll admit I'm a workaholic.

He had a voice that was the truth, raw and unfiltered. You can't get any realer, any more tortured or any more alive. No one can do what George Jones does, and that's why 50 years later, he still stands out as one of the greatest singers in any genre of all time.

Its five o'clock some where

It's very hard for me to relax.

Every Christmas my hometown radio station would always play 'Christmas In Dixie' by Alabama. I always remember lovin' that song.

We don't have to miss each other, come over We don't have to fix each other, come over We don't have to say forever, come over You don't have to stay forever, come over

I'm a huge Aerosmith fan.

Don't blink. You just might miss your babies growing like mine did. Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your 'better half' Of fifty years is there in bed. And you're praying God takes you instead. Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think So don't blink.

I love you baby goodnight. There goes my life

Ive always been drawn to the ocean.

So yeah, it's nothing that I'm doing on purpose, I just think that the more records, the more songs that I write, the more records that I make, you're obviously going to fall into a specific style and thank God it's a style that people are into.

One word, that's all you said and something in your voice caused me to turn my head. Your smile just captured me.

I meet a lot of characters in the islands, people who're running -- who're happier on a fishing boat than they are back home.When I first got down there,I don't know if I was running from a real bad heartbreak or running to something I thought would make me feel better.But since I've been spending time in the Caribbean, I've come to realize that I've got nothing to run from.

My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to try to write songs from this time of the day to this time of the day." Almost treat it like a real job. I can't do that. I've never been able to write songs like that. You never know when something creative is going to hit you, or emotion or whatever. You can take it, and turn it into something that makes somebody feel something. I love that about my job.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm at a point in my career that if I want to take a little bit of a left turn and make an album that is more hushed, more acoustic and more personal, that I can do it,

Keg in the closet pizza on the floor left over from the night before, where we were going we didn't really care. We had all we ever wanted in that keg in the closet.

Early on I was just a kid in a cowboy hat with a bunch of other guys in a room that were putting out some records. Now thank God, in the past 3 or 4 years, when.. it's really hard to burn an image of a face with a song these days. I think that the songs like 'Don't Happen Twice' and 'Young' were songs that helped me do that and I think that 'I Go Back'(did) that even more.

Her little ring is a little thing, but its all I could afford Now she's mine, all mine till the day I die, and I never wanted nothin' more

I love living my life in flip-flops. I met a guy in the islands a while ago who told me he hadn't worn a pair of shoes in three years! I thought, 'Man, that's the life!'

I'm all right. I'm good. There has been better times, but I'll be okay.

the more you live the more things reflect all around you!!!!