Chesney Quotes & Sayings

I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road. — Kenny Chesney

It's a good community, country music, because we get the chance to sit down and ... me and Tim McGraw spend a lot of time. Me and Kenny Chesney had the opportunity to spend a lot of time together. It's been a lot of great advice through the years. — Luke Bryan

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

Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape. — Kenny Chesney

I'm running a radio station. — Kenny Chesney

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!' — Kenny Chesney

I want to spend more time with my family. — Kenny Chesney

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 — Kenny Chesney

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. — Kenny Chesney

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

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

I remember making up songs in my head. — Kenny Chesney

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour. — Taylor Swift

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

I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business. — Darius Rucker

She flew at Harriet and tore the flowers from her hair and scratched her face. Harriet, too dazed to defend herself, reeled back. Agnes flew to Harriet's aid and got her face well and truly slapped for her pains. "Slut!" screamed Cordelia, panting. "Jade! How dare you disobey my orders? You have given Arden such a — Marion Chesney

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. — Kenny Chesney

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

When some of the gangs got involved with the drug trade, particularlythe crack cocaine trade, and the lethal violence started to flare up in the '80s, then there was a great deal of public attention on gangs and a great deal of concern about what was going on in these social groups. — Meda Chesney-Lind

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

Violence among boys is so valorized and so encouraged that you have to do things different in violence prevention with boys than with girls. — Meda Chesney-Lind

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. — Kenny Chesney

The gang may be a safer place than home, but it's not without its problems. In some instances, especially in the Latino community, the boys have very traditional views of femininity even though they are gang members. The girls can be [seen] as sexually available, but not the good girl that you want to take home to your family, even by young men in the gangs. — Meda Chesney-Lind

In fact the whole of two-faced society paid only lip service to the ten commandments and committed adultery, stole, and cheated at cards, because, after all, it was only the eleventh commandment that mattered - Thou Shalt Not Get Found Out. — Marion Chesney

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

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

may ask me anything." "How long would it take to get a closed stove installed — Marion Chesney

managers, and, after her stay at that terrible old coaching inn, The Boar's Head, she welcomed even the — Marion 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

The most dangerous kind of girl involvement with gangs is one where the girls are just sort of hanging around the gang boys or even being part of the male gang. — Meda Chesney-Lind

Ty:"It sounds pretty when you say it, but I have no clue what the hell you're talking about."
Imogen:"It's Shakespeare," she said.
Ty:"Well, I was pretty sure it wasn't Kenny Chesney. — Erin McCarthy

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. — Kenny Chesney

My fans reflect who I am. — 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

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

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

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

Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party. — Taylor Swift

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

I work hard but I play hard. — Kenny Chesney

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

He was a small, chubby little man with a perpetual air of sadness about him, making him look like a baby that has dropped its rattle. — Marion Chesney

I literally wouldn't have dreamed of it in a million years that I'm going to be standing there with George (Strait) and Garth and Kenny (Chesney) and Reba (McEntire) and Brooks & Dunn. I don't really have any clue what I'm actually doing with those people because I feel like I'm still just getting started and I've seen them all in concert and they're all my heroes. — Miranda Lambert

The more you live the more things reflect all around you!!!! — Kenny Chesney

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. — Kenny Chesney

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! — Kenny Chesney

I've always been drawn to the ocean. — Kenny Chesney

There's a lot that goes into being Tim McGraw or Kenny Chesney. They have great songs, their show is great, they're very fit. When you look at somebody who takes care of themselves, takes care of their business, that's what every CEO would do. — Jake Owen

Here in the UK the audience immediately reacts and they get the fact that: "What would be the most annoying thing in the world?" A Chesney Hawkes alarm clock! — Duncan Jones

I'm a huge Aerosmith fan. — Kenny Chesney

Like most womanisers, he affected to like women, and yet he despised and hated them all. And — Marion Chesney

Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song. — Jake Owen

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. — Kenny Chesney

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

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

Its five o'clock some where — Kenny Chesney

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics. — Taylor Swift

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

Sometimes, when I look back over my life," said Hannah sadly, "I do not think of all the people who harmed me, but quite often of all the kindnesses and wish I could go back and say 'thank you' properly." She — Marion 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

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

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. — Kenny Chesney

Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down. — 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

Live a little, love a lot. — 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

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

endured - how I endured! - for one day I knew her services would no longer be required and I would make my come-out and at least I would have a brief time when I could meet girls of my own age. But Miss Stamp was raised to the rank of companion and still had the schooling — Marion Chesney

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

I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not. — 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

Is this the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kendall?" he asked, wondering whether he had arrived by mistake at a brothel that was throwing some sort of a party. "Oh — Marion Chesney

there is nothing so bad as a reformed anything, be it gambler, drunkard, or lecher. They are aye harder on folks wi' their vices than someone without them would be." Sir — Marion Chesney

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. — Kenny Chesney

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

George Strait is the king and Kenny Chesney is about as big as it gets right now, though I wouldnt mind going back out on the road with him. Maybe I could go out on the road with some singers from other genres. — Dierks Bentley

I'll admit I'm a workaholic. — Kenny Chesney

The writer harked back to Lord Byron's maiden speech in the House three years before: "I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces in Turkey, but never, under the most despotic of infidel Governments, did I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return in the very heart of a Christian country." Mrs. — Marion Chesney

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

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. — Kenny Chesney

If you socialize people to care about each other and care about relationships, they tend to be much less violent and tend to think about the consequences of their actions more. — Meda Chesney-Lind

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. — Kenny Chesney

Now the moon is high; and the great house, needing habitation more than ever, is like a body without life. Now it is even awful, stealing through it, to think of the live people who have slept in the solitary bedrooms, to say nothing of the dead. Now is the time for shadow, when every corner is a cavern and every downward step a pit, when the stained glass is reflected in pale and faded hues upon the floors, when anything and everything can be made of the heavy staircase beams excepting their own proper shapes, when the armour has dull lights upon it not easily to be distinguished from stealthy movement, and when barred helmets are frightfully suggestive of heads inside. But of all the shadows in Chesney Wold, the shadow in the long drawing-room upon my Lady's picture is the first to come, the last to be disturbed. At this hour and by this light it changes into threatening hands raised up and menacing the handsome face with every breath that stirs. — Charles Dickens

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

Had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young. — Kenny Chesney

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. — 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

His voice became louder as he — Marion 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 didn't need more fame or money. I needed more heart. — Kenny Chesney

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

Oh, stow your whids, you dreary watering-pot, — Marion Chesney

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

without touching Annabelle, she managed to urge her along toward the vicarage. — Marion Chesney

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. — Kenny Chesney

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