Quotes By Kenny Chesney

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

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.

I'm a huge Aerosmith fan.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I've always been drawn to the ocean.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

It's very hard for me to relax.

I work hard but I play hard.

Believe it or not, I want to keep growing my audience.

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.

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.

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

I remember making up songs in my head.

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

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.

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