Kenny Chesney Quotes

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

I remember making up songs in my head.

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

Actually, I wouldn't know what to do now if I had hair. I'm pretty comfortable being bald. It doesn't bother me. I've never had one girl tell me she didn't want to have sex with me because I didn't have any hair.

Nothing positive at all in my life came from my marriage, I can tell you that.

In 1994 I bought my first tour bus. I still own it and believe it or not it's still out on the road on my tour.

I was on one bus with my band and crew for seven years. I didn't come to town with a karaoke tape. I didn't get on a TV show. There were no shortcuts. Anybody who wants to follow my model is welcome to it. You don't want to follow my path.

What good is it if a guy can sing real good but he sits on his ass and doesn't make anybody feel anything? I can connect with an audience every time I play. When I sing, they listen.

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

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

It's funny to see my friends going through that middle-age thing about losing their hair. I went through it in college. They all say, "Oh my God, I'm getting old. I'm never getting laid again." Shut up. Yes, you are.

I'll admit I'm a workaholic.

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.

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

I hate my smile. I always have, even in my school pictures when I was a little kid.

I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."

One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.

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.

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.

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

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 was definitely born a dreamer. I could never sit still, and I can't now.

The title [of the album 'The Big Revival']alone fit what I was feeling. It defined what I was going through. That year off was a time to revive, to reset, to reclaim, to revitalize and to re-focus. It was a revival of how I made music, how I presented it and my connection with the fans.

When Obama talks about raising taxes on the rich, he's looking at me.

In 21 years there are a lot of ups and downs. There are melancholy times. There are sad times. There are happy times. There are unsure times. There are life lessons.

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

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.

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

I didn't have any clue as to what true marriage meant. I was so used to committing to one thing - music - and then I had to totally commit to a second thing, marriage. I didn't know how to commit to both of them. It was a scary moment for me.

I've been in the music business for 15 years. I've seen it all, man. I've just always been scared of coke. When I was on the road and saw some people do it, I was afraid I would really like it. I was afraid of the consequences.

When I'm offstage, I never feel famous. I will never let anybody call a restaurant and say, "We're with Kenny Chesney. Can you get us in?" That's so pretentious. I'm pretty simple except for the fact that I have a really great boat and a little bit of money. When I'm offstage I don't feel like the person everybody sees.

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.

I learned from my mom that you should always try to enjoy life, no matter what.

I love being able to say a quick thanks to the man above for the music and the fact that we're even in this spot. If you'd told me this in college when I was sitting on a stool and playing for enchiladas and tips, I'd have bet everything against it.

Certain nights, when everything's perfect and we have thousands of people partying their asses off, I break my rule and have a drink onstage. I've never done a show drunk. Well, I take that back. In the early days I did.

My mom and my real father divorced before I was one. My mom and my stepfather divorced when I was in high school. Then she fell in love with a guy, and the guy died. That was a rough time. She has handled adversity well. That's where I got my work ethic. So my mother's where I got my love of music, but my father's where I got my athletic ability. And my hair loss. And my love of women.

I don't really drink before a show. That's my only drinking rule. Especially with today's cell-phone cameras, there's no win to it.

I can't see going onstage wearing a long-sleeve shirt in the dead of summer. I work out hard during the day with a trainer who monitors everything I put in my mouth when I'm on tour. When I first got a record deal, you can tell by my early album covers that working out wasn't that much a part of my life.

My mother is a very fun-loving person. She has been through a lot in her life. She has had a couple of divorces. When I was in high school she was a single mother. That's when I learned to do my own laundry.

I hate album covers where people are just smiling so big. It's like a neon sign that says PLEASE COME BUY ME.

It's very hard for me to relax.

Growing up too fast and I do recall, Wishin' time would stop right in it's tracks.

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.

My fans get enough politics on TV every day. I want them to think for themselves. I don't want them to listen to me.

We call it drunk philosophy. You have a few beers and you become a lot smarter.

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 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.