Kenny Chesney Quotes

You’d think I’d have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it’s an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.

This is a bit of curveball, but people who are really good kissers never have anything given to them.

Things that made me happy five, six years ago don’t make me happy anymore.

There’s this idea that somebody’s job could be more important than somebody else’s, and to me, that’s not true.

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.

The last couple of years I’ve been on an empty tank. And that’s gotta change.

So many nights I’m up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.

People who can’t kiss had everything given to them.

Over the years I’ve had people tell me that they come to my show to escape.

My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.

My fans reflect who I am.

My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I was. They knew the songs, but they didn’t know me.

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.

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

It’s very hard for me to relax.

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.

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