Kenny Chesney is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer. He has produced more than 30 top 10 singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, 22 of which have reached number 1. He is one of the most successful country music artists of all time, having sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Kenny Chesney on life, ocean, country.
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it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!
One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.
had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.
Live a little, love a lot.
Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.
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
No one can make me cry
Make me laugh
Make me smile
Or drive me mad like she does
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
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!'
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
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Live a little, love a lot. — Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney Short Quotes
First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.
Music's my medication.
I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.
Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.
It's tough enough to have a relationship, and it hurts enough to have it not work.
I don't really lose my temper that much, but when somebody mistreats my guys, I just go crazy.
I hate my smile. I always have, even in my school pictures when I was a little kid.
I work hard but I play hard.
On the road, in my bunk, I sleep better than I do anywhere else in the world.
We call it drunk philosophy. You have a few beers and you become a lot smarter.
Kenny Chesney Quotes About Life
An important mentor for me, in terms of teaching me that there's a right way and a wrong way to do things, was probably my football coach. And playing football was one of the first times in my life that I realized nothing is given to you. You have to work really hard. — Kenny Chesney
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. — Kenny Chesney
In 21 years there are a lot of ups and downs. There are melancholy times. There are sad times. There are happy times. There are unsure times. There are life lessons. — Kenny Chesney
We leaned on family, church, school, friends and sports. That's basically all we had. All those things really shaped my life and shaped me musically. It's why I write the way I do. — Kenny Chesney
My mother is a very fun-loving person. She has been through a lot in her life. She has had a couple of divorces. When I was in high school she was a single mother. That's when I learned to do my own laundry. — Kenny Chesney
When old Bobby does Elvis, you swear it's the real mccoy. Another Friday night in the life of a country boy. — Kenny Chesney
I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life. — Kenny Chesney
I've been focused for a long time. I've given my life to do music. I've sacrificed everything. — Kenny Chesney
Nothing positive at all in my life came from my marriage, I can tell you that. — Kenny Chesney
My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave. — Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney Quotes About Country
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 — Kenny Chesney
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. — Kenny Chesney
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 — Kenny Chesney
Just because I don't sing about the normal country themes doesn't mean my songs aren't country. I'd rather sing about having fun. — Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney Quotes About Love
I think people need to live their lives the way they want to, but I'm pretty confident in the fact that I love girls. I've got a long line of girls who could testify that I am not gay. — Kenny Chesney
One word, that's all you said and something in your voice caused me to turn my head. Your smile just captured me. — Kenny Chesney
I'm uncomfortable with being famous. I hate it. But I love making music. I love getting paid to do it, and I love getting on my boat after I get paid to do it. — Kenny Chesney
[Music] is the one thing that connects the dots in all kinds of ways. No matter how you were brought up, no matter what your religious background or political beliefs, people still love to sing along with somebody. — Kenny Chesney
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. — Kenny Chesney
I'm a loving drunk. I get sentimental. "I love you guys." I drunk-dial a lot. — Kenny Chesney
I feel that energy up there on stage. The band, the crew and our road family - the look in their eyes - they're so happy to be back doing what we love to do. — Kenny Chesney
I'm a big sports history buff. I love sports. — Kenny Chesney
The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that. — Kenny Chesney
I live to love and laugh a lot and that's all I need — Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney Quotes About Girls
I can stay on my boat for a few weeks if I have a guitar and a girl and a Bob Marley CD. After that, I've got to move around. — Kenny Chesney
I'm dating a girl who's pretty levelheaded. She's a nurse. She's a real, normal girl. Which is what I need because my life isn't normal. — Kenny Chesney
Actually, I wouldn't know what to do now if I had hair. I'm pretty comfortable being bald. It doesn't bother me. I've never had one girl tell me she didn't want to have sex with me because I didn't have any hair. — Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney Famous Quotes And Sayings
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. — Kenny Chesney
Live a little, love a lot. — Kenny Chesney
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 — Kenny Chesney
There were years of that stuff that will never leave me. Never. When the bus turned a million miles - that's a lot of traveling. It's really cool to think about. I'm blessed to have traveled a million miles on a tour bus. — Kenny Chesney
My fans get enough politics on TV every day. I want them to think for themselves. I don't want them to listen to me. — Kenny Chesney
I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)." — Kenny Chesney
I'm very liberal in some ways, and then I'm very conservative in others. I once asked my grandpa, "Are you a Republican or a Democrat?" He said, "I'm a Democrat, but I'm saving up to be a Republican." — Kenny Chesney
I have friends who have a normal family, kids and a dog, and I think I would blow my brains out. It's fine for them. But I'm such a free spirit, I feel more alive when I've got somewhere to go. — Kenny Chesney
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. — Kenny Chesney
My elementary school is still there [in Luttrell, Tennessee]. I drop by my high school. It's a small community. I say this every night before I do the song 'The Boys of Fall' in the show - I'm really happy about where I grew up and how I grew up. — Kenny Chesney
Every Christmas my hometown radio station would always play 'Christmas In Dixie' by Alabama. I always remember lovin' that song. — Kenny Chesney
Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports. — Kenny Chesney
I hate album covers where people are just smiling so big. It's like a neon sign that says PLEASE COME BUY ME. — Kenny Chesney
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. — Kenny Chesney
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. — Kenny Chesney
It's funny to see my friends going through that middle-age thing about losing their hair. I went through it in college. They all say, "Oh my God, I'm getting old. I'm never getting laid again." Shut up. Yes, you are. — Kenny Chesney
I took a complete year off the road, but a big part of that year was making 'The Big Revival.' I needed that down time just so I could concentrate. The one thing that starts it all for us is the music. That's what you create in the studio. That's where the magic happens. — Kenny Chesney
The title [of the album 'The Big Revival']alone fit what I was feeling. It defined what I was going through. That year off was a time to revive, to reset, to reclaim, to revitalize and to re-focus. It was a revival of how I made music, how I presented it and my connection with the fans. — Kenny Chesney
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. — Kenny Chesney
I felt as a human being I needed to take a pause and reflect on a lot of stuff that's happened. That was really good for me. And to get some of the ringing out of my years from all the amps on stage. — Kenny Chesney
I drink a few beers, and I've smoked a little pot. But I'm too health conscious to do it regularly. I run a lot. I don't smoke cigarettes. Pot is the hardest thing I've tried, really. — Kenny Chesney
Now I'm a symbol of what to be and how hard to work. I have heads of major labels say, "I wish you could teach our artists how to do it." At one point I was the punching bag of what not to be, and now I'm the model of what to be. — Kenny Chesney
I think it is possible to be friends with employees, but there has to be a respect level where you're not taken advantage of, either. — Kenny Chesney
I don't really drink before a show. That's my only drinking rule. Especially with today's cell-phone cameras, there's no win to it. — Kenny Chesney
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. — Kenny Chesney
I can't see going onstage wearing a long-sleeve shirt in the dead of summer. I work out hard during the day with a trainer who monitors everything I put in my mouth when I'm on tour. When I first got a record deal, you can tell by my early album covers that working out wasn't that much a part of my life. — Kenny Chesney
When I'm offstage, I never feel famous. I will never let anybody call a restaurant and say, "We're with Kenny Chesney. Can you get us in?" That's so pretentious. I'm pretty simple except for the fact that I have a really great boat and a little bit of money. When I'm offstage I don't feel like the person everybody sees. — Kenny Chesney
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. — Kenny Chesney
It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off. — Kenny Chesney
I'm all right. I'm good. There has been better times, but I'll be okay. — Kenny Chesney
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. — Kenny Chesney
When I'm onstage I feel changed. — Kenny Chesney
One thing that I learned that helped me deal with human behavior is confrontation, and I'm not that great with confrontation at all. But once I started to be O.K. with that, the better everybody's life got. — Kenny Chesney
I truly believe that music is the most powerful thing we have. — Kenny Chesney
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. — Kenny Chesney
I didn't need more fame or money. I needed more heart. — Kenny Chesney
I want there to be a level of respect between everybody. — Kenny Chesney
I'm glad I took that time to work really hard on the music. I feel the effects of that now in a positive way with my connection with the audience. — Kenny Chesney
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. — Kenny Chesney
What good is it if a guy can sing real good but he sits on his ass and doesn't make anybody feel anything? I can connect with an audience every time I play. When I sing, they listen. — Kenny Chesney
Certain nights, when everything's perfect and we have thousands of people partying their asses off, I break my rule and have a drink onstage. I've never done a show drunk. Well, I take that back. In the early days I did. — Kenny Chesney
In 1994 I bought my first tour bus. I still own it and believe it or not it's still out on the road on my tour. — Kenny Chesney
It's very hard for me to relax. — Kenny Chesney
I learned from my mom that you should always try to enjoy life, no matter what. — Kenny Chesney
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. — Kenny Chesney
I love being able to say a quick thanks to the man above for the music and the fact that we're even in this spot. If you'd told me this in college when I was sitting on a stool and playing for enchiladas and tips, I'd have bet everything against it. — Kenny Chesney
There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true. — Kenny Chesney
If I'm 40 years old and wearing a 30 waist, that's pretty good. — Kenny Chesney
I was on one bus with my band and crew for seven years. I didn't come to town with a karaoke tape. I didn't get on a TV show. There were no shortcuts. Anybody who wants to follow my model is welcome to it. You don't want to follow my path. — Kenny Chesney
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. — Kenny Chesney
Its five o'clock some where — Kenny Chesney
My mom and my real father divorced before I was one. My mom and my stepfather divorced when I was in high school. Then she fell in love with a guy, and the guy died. That was a rough time. She has handled adversity well. That's where I got my work ethic. So my mother's where I got my love of music, but my father's where I got my athletic ability. And my hair loss. And my love of women. — Kenny Chesney
I wasn't a great student, C average. I was pretty shy, but I drank a lot of beer. — Kenny Chesney
When Obama talks about raising taxes on the rich, he's looking at me. — Kenny Chesney
There were [in 21] all those times in my life that I didn't know this was going to happen. I didn't know if anybody was going to care about our music. — Kenny Chesney
I was definitely born a dreamer. I could never sit still, and I can't now. — Kenny Chesney
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. — Kenny Chesney
I have never said a negative thing about anybody, even when the whole world was saying I was gay because Renée Zellweger cited fraud. — Kenny Chesney
the more you live the more things reflect all around you!!!! — Kenny Chesney
I want to spend more time with my family. — Kenny Chesney
When I'm onstage I just want to feel as comfortable as I possibly can. — Kenny Chesney
I've been in the music business for 15 years. I've seen it all, man. I've just always been scared of coke. When I was on the road and saw some people do it, I was afraid I would really like it. I was afraid of the consequences. — Kenny Chesney
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. — Kenny Chesney
I didn't have any clue as to what true marriage meant. I was so used to committing to one thing - music - and then I had to totally commit to a second thing, marriage. I didn't know how to commit to both of them. It was a scary moment for me. — Kenny Chesney
The beauty is that it's all a part of this wonderful dream I had in college. It's beautiful to see what it's turned into. It's the journey that I'm most proud of. — Kenny Chesney
Life Lessons by Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney's music often focuses on the importance of living in the moment and enjoying life's simple pleasures. He emphasizes the importance of valuing relationships, taking time to appreciate the beauty of nature, and being open to new experiences.
His music also encourages us to be resilient in the face of adversity and to find strength in our faith and relationships.
Finally, Chesney's music reminds us to be kind to others and to never give up on our dreams.
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