Kenny Rogers Quotes

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.

I still like going on the road and performing, but it's getting tougher. I try to have my wife and the twins with me but it's getting harder and harder for them. They need to be in a home environment and not traveling with me.

I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done.

If someone asks you to run the 100 yard dash as fast as you can, you'll run the 100 dash as fast as you think you can. But if you put someone along side you who runs a little faster, you are going to run faster - whoa - I better step it up a little bit. I do things even I didn't know I was capable of.

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

I never had a doubt in my mind. I always knew that, with the right material, I could pop a hit.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

The music business is strictly business.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

It's not all wet towels and naked women. I was so disappointed to learn that.

You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field.

Stay away from trouble when you can.

He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And stop the clouds from chimin', block the sun from shinin',an' paint the sky a deeper shade of blue, 'cause my world's over without you.

We did some massive flirting in front of the nation, but there was never anything more than that.

Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

You gotta know when to hold'em, know when to foldem, know when to walk away, know when to run. You never count your money when you're sittin at the table, there'll be time enuff for countin' when the dealin's done.

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.

I love Viagra. I don't need it, but I tried it. It's a great legal drug.

George Jones will always be one of the most amazing singers who ever lived. He was a true Country Music legend who made music very personal to the listener – I think more than anyone else. He will be dearly missed, but always remembered.

The Hall of Fame is forever, baby!

Sometimes you've got to fight when your a man.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.

Friendships come and go, but families are forever.

With all my heart, and all my soul, I will love you till the winds don't blow. Until the oceans turn to stone, my love is yours and yours alone. My love is forever, until forever's gone.