Randy Travis Quotes

I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

In the God of all creation, we put our faith and trust. And give our lives to you, cause you gave your life for us.

There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

You dont have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish Id come to mine earlier than I did.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

Armies gather in the East for the war that's soon to come. Death will march with the mark of the beast, so seek the light and walk with the Son.

I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart.

Your heroes will help you find good in yourself.

You almost felt sorry for the devil cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer, when Mama prayed.

History will tell the story, America will always stand.

After youve been married quite a few years, you learn to take orders; it just comes easy.

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole.

I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

I never felt at peace with anything or anybody.

For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a persons soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat.

I never thought I'd be a good influence on anybody with anything I did or said or sang.

If you wonder how long Ill be faithful. I'll be happy to tell you again. I'm gonna love you forever & ever, forever & ever amen.

When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.

I never had peace of mind.

I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.

When I got into my early 20s, I was going to bed one nightI was still drinking, still using drugs, and probably was drunk or high or both when I just picked up the Bible and started reading to go to sleep. I was amazed at how well I slept, but even beyond that, the next day, there was this peace of mind that was still there that I wasnt used to.

America is not divided, our enemies they will be stopped. Cause we the people are united, and still one nation under God.

You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

I'm singing. I'm a singer!

Honey, I don't care, I ain't in love with your hair, and if it all fell out I'd love you anyway.

I have to look to my wife.

My Mom and Dad had six kids, and four of the six were going down the same road I was.

I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.' None of it took with me.

I know the author of my every breath, oh that's Jesus.

The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.

Maybe we could learn a little lesson, maybe this all shine a little light, cause there's no healthy way to mess with the line between wrong and right.

I love finding songs, going through them, tearing them apart, and seeing if I can find anything wrong with them.