What good is it if a guy can sing real good but he sits on his ass and doesn't make anybody feel anything? I can connect with an audience every time I play. When I sing, they listen. Kenny Chesney More Quotes by Kenny Chesney More Quotes From Kenny Chesney There's this emotion we all feel of being overwhelmed at times, feeling that you can't get ahead. For me it's self-imposed because I'm so driven and I'm always going from project to project. Kenny Chesney emotion self feelings When Obama talks about raising taxes on the rich, he's looking at me. Kenny Chesney raising-taxes taxes rich I didn't have any clue as to what true marriage meant. I was so used to committing to one thing - music - and then I had to totally commit to a second thing, marriage. I didn't know how to commit to both of them. It was a scary moment for me. Kenny Chesney clue scary moments Nothing positive at all in my life came from my marriage, I can tell you that. Kenny Chesney i-can I was on one bus with my band and crew for seven years. I didn't come to town with a karaoke tape. I didn't get on a TV show. There were no shortcuts. Anybody who wants to follow my model is welcome to it. You don't want to follow my path. Kenny Chesney tape tv-shows years Now I'm a symbol of what to be and how hard to work. I have heads of major labels say, "I wish you could teach our artists how to do it." At one point I was the punching bag of what not to be, and now I'm the model of what to be. Kenny Chesney bags artist wish If I'm 40 years old and wearing a 30 waist, that's pretty good. Kenny Chesney ifs years When I'm onstage I just want to feel as comfortable as I possibly can. Kenny Chesney comfortable want feels My mom and my real father divorced before I was one. My mom and my stepfather divorced when I was in high school. Then she fell in love with a guy, and the guy died. That was a rough time. She has handled adversity well. That's where I got my work ethic. So my mother's where I got my love of music, but my father's where I got my athletic ability. And my hair loss. And my love of women. Kenny Chesney mom real mother It's funny to see my friends going through that middle-age thing about losing their hair. I went through it in college. They all say, "Oh my God, I'm getting old. I'm never getting laid again." Shut up. Yes, you are. Kenny Chesney college age hair I have never said a negative thing about anybody, even when the whole world was saying I was gay because Renée Zellweger cited fraud. Kenny Chesney gay negative world It's tough enough to have a relationship, and it hurts enough to have it not work. Kenny Chesney tough enough hurt Certain nights, when everything's perfect and we have thousands of people partying their asses off, I break my rule and have a drink onstage. I've never done a show drunk. Well, I take that back. In the early days I did. Kenny Chesney party perfect night I don't really drink before a show. That's my only drinking rule. Especially with today's cell-phone cameras, there's no win to it. Kenny Chesney phones drinking winning The beauty is that it's all a part of this wonderful dream I had in college. It's beautiful to see what it's turned into. It's the journey that I'm most proud of. Kenny Chesney journey dream beautiful There were [in 21] all those times in my life that I didn't know this was going to happen. I didn't know if anybody was going to care about our music. Kenny Chesney care knows happens Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports. Kenny Chesney family-friends church sports When I started playing music at East Tennessee State University I would sit on a stool with a tip jar in front of me and play four hours a night at a college bar called Quarterback's Barbecue. I wasn't thinking about doing it for a living. I was just making enough money to go to Taco Bell every day. People were eating chips, drinking beer and not listening to me. I'd had three or four years of people ignoring me, and I'd kind of gotten used to it. Kenny Chesney drinking beer night I hate album covers where people are just smiling so big. It's like a neon sign that says PLEASE COME BUY ME. Kenny Chesney albums hate people There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true. Kenny Chesney important jobs ideas
