Top 155 Quotes & Sayings by Kenny Chesney
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Kenny Chesney.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
I've always been drawn to the ocean.
The last couple of years I've been on an empty tank. And that's gotta change.
Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.
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.
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've gotten to meet so many people who've inspired me as a human being.
I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.
My fans reflect who I am.
Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape.
I remember making up songs in my head.
This is a bit of curveball, but people who are really good kissers never have anything given to them.
I think there is a part of life that I'm missing.
I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.
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.
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.
First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.
My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.
Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.
Believe it or not, I want to keep growing my audience.
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 think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.
I'm pretty firm in my sexuality and my love for women.
People who can't kiss had everything given to them.
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'm running a radio station.
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.
I work hard but I play hard.
I'm like a shark. I've got to be constantly moving.
I want to spend more time with my family.
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.
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 needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm a helluva kisser.
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.
I do sell fun.
It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.
It's very hard for me to relax.
I'll admit I'm a workaholic.
Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'
I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road.
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 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 don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.
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.
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.
Things that made me happy five, six years ago don't make me happy anymore.
There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.
it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!
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.
One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.
I live to love and laugh a lot and that's all I need
had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.
Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports.
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.
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