Top 143 Quotes & Sayings by Blake Shelton
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I'm not a summertime guy. The only time I really enjoy the summer is touring and performing because there is nothing else for me to do at home. It's too hot, and you can't farm. You can't hunt.
I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.
I love getting the pontoon boat out, and I don't get to do it as much anymore. If I know in two weeks or a month from now I've got three days off, I can start planning for that stuff, getting out there with friends and family and relaxing, just floating around and hanging out.
I don't ask other artists for too much advice.
When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.
My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.
Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.
Even if it's your wedding, if you're a guy, it's boring.
What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.
I have family in Oklahoma City.
My fans are the best; I love hanging with them.
To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.
Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.
I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management.
There needs to be an app that edits what I say versus what I want to say.
If you're not offending one group of people, you're not entertaining the other.
I tell you what: when you are getting married to Miranda Lambert, you're going to make time for whatever she wants.
Cee Lo is the coolest human being I have ever met in my life.
I love my band - they are the best out there, and I wouldn't want to perform with anyone else.
Stop using the word 'bromance.' Can we please kill that stupid term? We're just friends. It's called friendship!
Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.
I've never played it safe on my own music.
My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.
As a country singer, there is only one place you dream of playing in your lifetime, and that is the Grand Ole Opry House.
Shoot, man, I love everybody! I don't have time to hate.
One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.
I can't tell you what genre Maroon 5 is in. I don't know if they're rock or pop or alternative. I don't know what they are. I have a hard time separating that stuff. I just know what I like when I hear it.
If there's one thing special about me, it's that I seem familiar. People feel like I live next door.
AT&T sucks. There's no excuse for being in downtown Los Angeles, and your phone loses service. That's ridiculous.
I love Cee Lo, but I avoid him when he's holding that smelly cat.
I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio.
I like bubble baths.
I'm good at anything that's country - biscuits, gravy, chicken-fried steak. Look at me, for God's sake. I cook what I like to eat.
I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.
I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know that if Usher wants to help you, you let him.
I never really saw myself doing a Super Bowl promo.
For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.
Somebody will come on TV singing, and you're like, 'Oh my God! I mean, they suck! You know, who signed them?' Well, it's just because she's good lookin', or it's because he's takin' his shirt off and he's muscley or something, or else he wouldn't have gotten his chance.
I get on Twitter, one of my routines during the day, if I'm home is, I wake up, get a cup of coffee, turn on the Weather Channel and I'll look at what people are saying to me on Twitter on my phone.
Anybody that has followed closely what I've been doing can see from 'Home,' being as big a hit as it was, it kind of opened the door for me to try new things musically.
I'm never going to listen to someone trash my wife.
I've spent a lifetime in love with country music.
Raffles are no fun.
I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!
I think the worst thing you can do is blend in. Why would you ever want to blend in?
When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' Well, you have to look at it under a microscope and know that each station is just trying to do what's right for their market, and it's scary for a radio station to add a song that they don't know how well it's gonna do for them.
I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes.
I don't give a crap about clowns.
The Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes' makes me want to move. And I still haven't gotten over the Macarena. Who has?
I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.
Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.
I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a tape copy guy. Eventually, I got fired from that job.
I'd love to have a big old hug with Richard Simmons.
When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'
I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.
One thing that you can't fake is chemistry.
The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly.
I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.
Every day, somebody has a song they want you to hear, and you're stupid if you don't listen to it because you never know what you may find.
I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.
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