Kenny Rogers Quotes

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

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

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.

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.

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

Friendships come and go, but families are forever.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

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

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

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

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.

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

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

I love Viagra. I don't need it, but I tried it. It's a great legal drug.

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

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.

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.

He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

Stay away from trouble when you can.

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.

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.

We did some massive flirting in front of the nation, but there was never anything more than that.

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!

The music business is strictly business.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I feel like I learn something from everything I do.

I was raised in the church.

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.

I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.

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.

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

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

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.

The Hall of Fame is forever, baby!

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

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.

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