Top 56 Quotes & Sayings by Kenny Rogers

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Kenny Rogers.

Last updated on November 25, 2024.

Kenneth Ray Rogers was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Rogers was particularly popular with country audiences but also charted more than 120 hit singles across various genres, topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone. He sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his lifetime, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. His fame and career spanned multiple genres: jazz, folk, pop, rock, and country. He remade his career and was one of the most successful cross-over artists of all time.

American - Musician | August 21, 1938 - March 20, 2020

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

Kenny Rogers

I was raised in the church.

Kenny Rogers

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

Kenny Rogers

You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.

Kenny Rogers

Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

Kenny Rogers

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

Kenny Rogers

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.

Kenny Rogers

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

Kenny Rogers

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

Kenny Rogers

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Kenny Rogers

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.

Kenny Rogers

When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost touch with reality.

Kenny Rogers

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

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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.

Kenny Rogers

I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.

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

Kenny Rogers

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.

Kenny Rogers

I feel like I learn something from everything I do.

Kenny Rogers

I think when you're in the public eye, you feel a pressure to stay younger looking.

Kenny Rogers

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

Kenny Rogers

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.

Kenny Rogers

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

Kenny Rogers

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

Kenny Rogers

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.

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

Kenny Rogers

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

Kenny Rogers

It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.

Kenny Rogers

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

Kenny Rogers

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

Kenny Rogers

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

Kenny Rogers

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

Kenny Rogers

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!

Kenny Rogers

Friendships come and go, but families are forever.

Kenny Rogers

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.

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Daytime friends and night time lovers, hoping that no one else discovers.

Kenny Rogers

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field.

Kenny Rogers

If someone asks you to run the 100 yard dash as fast as you can, you'll run the 100 dash as fast as you think you can. But if you put someone along side you who runs a little faster, you are going to run faster - whoa - I better step it up a little bit. I do things even I didn't know I was capable of.

Kenny Rogers

The music business is strictly business.

Kenny Rogers

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.

Kenny Rogers

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

Kenny Rogers

It's not all wet towels and naked women. I was so disappointed to learn that.

Kenny Rogers

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

Kenny Rogers

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

Kenny Rogers

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

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The Hall of Fame is forever, baby!

Kenny Rogers

George Jones will always be one of the most amazing singers who ever lived. He was a true Country Music legend who made music very personal to the listener – I think more than anyone else. He will be dearly missed, but always remembered.

Kenny Rogers

You gotta know when to hold'em, know when to foldem, know when to walk away, know when to run. You never count your money when you're sittin at the table, there'll be time enuff for countin' when the dealin's done.

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