Kenny Rogers Quotes

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

If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

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

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

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

I feel like I learn something from everything I do.

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

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

Friendships come and go, but families are forever ...

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.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.

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.

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

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

Know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um and know when to walk away from cameramen.

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.

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

The music business is strictly business.

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

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.

Stay away from trouble when you can.

You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.

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.

That's what I always wanted to know. Why would some fella be willing to do something generous for a kid he doesn't even know?" Rodney asked. "Have to say I'm surprised, Mr. Burton. Of all the people on the face of the earth," he said, his voice softening, "I figured if anyone knew the answer to that one, it'd be you.

I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.

I think it's fun to play for people who don't know what you do.

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.

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

I've always said that gray hair looks good on everybody but yourself. To me, it makes me look old.

You got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, and know when to run

My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!

My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.

Here's what I've learned about raising boys ... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

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

I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

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

I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.

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.