Kenny Chesney Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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!'

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.

When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can take, baby you save me

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 work hard but I play hard.

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.

I'll admit I'm a workaholic.

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.

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

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

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.

Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you - you never go back

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.

Live a little, love a lot.

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

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

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,

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

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

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.

I want to spend more time with my family.

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.

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.

My fans reflect who I am.

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

I live to love and laugh a lot and that's all I need

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

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

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.

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.

Had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.

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 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 love you baby goodnight. There goes my life

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

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.

Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.

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

Don't that make you wanna fall in love
Don't that look like a picture of us
A match made in heaven if there ever was
Don't that make you wanna fall
That just makes me wanna give you my heart
Ever forever needs a place to start
Gotta be a sign from up above
Don't that make you wanna fall in love

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

There's something to be said for useless
days. You know, those days when you
have nothing to do and all day to do it ...
Trust me, a beach and a bottomless drink
may not cure the world's problems but it
can really get your head in the right place.
Those are my favorite kind of days.

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