Kenny Chesney quotes:

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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'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.

No one can make me cry Make me laugh Make me smile Or drive me mad like she does

I work hard but I play hard.

I'm a huge Aerosmith fan.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

I want to spend more time with my family.

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

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've always been drawn to the ocean.

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

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

I remember making up songs in my head.

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

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 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 love you baby goodnight. There goes my life

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

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.

What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide

Live a little, love a lot.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I'll admit I'm a workaholic.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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'm what I am and I'm what I'm not. And I'm sure happy with what I've got. I live to love and laugh a lot. And that's all I need.

Its five o'clock some where

It's very hard for me to relax.

Ive always been drawn to the ocean.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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