Kenny Chesney Quotes

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.

You gotta 'be' country music - you can't just sing it.

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.

I love country music so much. I love all kinds of music. But when it comes down to it, I'm from East Tennessee, and country melodies and country songs have always just sliced me in the heart.

I hope that country music embraces me because I grew up on it and have a love for the music.

I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

Music's supposed to be real. When it really touches you, it's supposed to be real.

I love country music, always have and always will.

I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.

I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real life stories and real life emotions.

I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has.

There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.

When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country music. I don't know who Brooks and Dunn are. I like Shania Twain, though!

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

I do think I'm country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. In my opinion, country music, the sound of country, has always evolved. But the one thing that has not changed is the story element. And I think country songs are truthful songs about life written by country people.

I've grown up with country music. I love how real everybody is, not just the artists, but the fans.

Like my fictional protagonist Tom Thorne, I love country. My tastes go back a bit further than his do, and I still listen to stuff from the late '70s and early '80s.

I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics.

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.