Kenny Chesney Quotes

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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I remember making up songs in my head.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I'm a huge Aerosmith fan.

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

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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.

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First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

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

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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.

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

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I've gotten to meet so many people who've inspired me as a human being.

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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.

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I'm running a radio station.

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I'll admit I'm a workaholic.

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Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'

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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.

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

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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.

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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!

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

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The last couple of years I've been on an empty tank. And that's gotta change.

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My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.

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I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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My fans reflect who I am.

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I've always been drawn to the ocean.

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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.

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

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

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I do sell fun.

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

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

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

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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.

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It's very hard for me to relax.

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I work hard but I play hard.

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