Kenny Rogers famous quotes

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

#Work #Night #Lovers

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

#Old Friends

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

#People #Want #Messages

Friendships come and go, but families are forever....
-- Kenny Rogers

#Friendship #Forever #Comes And Goes

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Music Is

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

#Change #Moving On #Running

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

#Wisdom #Gains #Spontaneity

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

#Jeans #Holes #Wells

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

#Positive #Mind #Youth

The music business is strictly business.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Music Business

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

#Doubt #Mind #Pops

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Nice #People #Laughing

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

#Inability

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!
-- Kenny Rogers

#Mom #Moving #Records

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

#Age #Radio #Difficult

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.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Eye #Son #Gambling

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

#Relationship #Children #Four

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

#Fighting #Men #Sometimes

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

#Philosophy #Mean #Weak

The Hall of Fame is forever, baby!
-- Kenny Rogers

#Baby #Forever #Fame

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

#Naked #Towels #Disappointed

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.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Thinking #Self #Years

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.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Believe #Years #Perfect

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.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Successful #Thinking #Joy

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.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Kids #Poor #Bunch

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

#Hair #Looks #Said

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

#Thinking #Laughing #Make You Think

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.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Promise #Exciting

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Upset #Age #Growing

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

#Flirting #Makeup

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.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Sweet #Stars #Block

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.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Love You #Ocean #Heart

I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Music #Talking #Singing

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.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Song #Men #Issues

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.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Country #Thinking #Singers

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.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Thinking #People #Done

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.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Boys #Bored #House

I was raised in the church.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Church #Raised

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

#Eye #Thinking #Pressure

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

#Fun #Thinking #Play

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

#Way #My Way #Spread

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

#Awards #Remember #Stage

I feel like I learn something from everything I do.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Feels

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

#Duets #Chemistry #Attraction

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.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Country #Love You #Rocks

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.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Song #Knack #Singers

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.
-- Kenny Rogers

#Home #Wife #Trying