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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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!

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

The music business is strictly business.

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

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.

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

I feel like I learn something from everything I do.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.

I was raised in the church.

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.

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

The Hall of Fame is forever, baby!

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

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

I never had a doubt in my mind. I always knew that, with the right material, I could pop a hit.

You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.