Explore Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

One word, that's all you said and something in your voice caused me to turn my head. Your smile just captured me.

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

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.

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.

There's something to be said for useless_x000D_ days. You know, those days when you_x000D_ have nothing to do and all day to do it ..._x000D_ Trust me, a beach and a bottomless drink_x000D_ may not cure the world's problems but it_x000D_ can really get your head in the right place._x000D_ Those are my favorite kind of days.

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

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.

I meet a lot of characters in the _x000D_ islands, people who're running -- who're _x000D_ happier on a fishing boat than they _x000D_ are back home.When I first got _x000D_ down there,I don't know if I was _x000D_ running from a real bad heartbreak _x000D_ or running to something I thought _x000D_ would make me feel better.But _x000D_ since I've been spending time in _x000D_ the Caribbean, I've come to realize _x000D_ that I've got nothing to run from.

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.

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.

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!'

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

Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.

No one can make me cry _x000D__x000D_Make me laugh _x000D__x000D_Make me smile _x000D__x000D_Or drive me mad like she does