Top 25 Kenny Rogers Quotes

When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don’t want people to think I’ve lost touch with reality.

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

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

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

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

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

I was raised in the church.

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

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

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.

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

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

Know when to hold ‘um, know when to fold ‘um and know when to walk away from cameramen.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

I feel like I learn something from everything I do.

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.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.