Kenny Chesney Quotes

I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.

I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days.

I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.

My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.

I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.

I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.

I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.

At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

You'd be playing in a pub in the afternoon. Then late at night, you'd be playing a club. You got into that habit: 'If we don't play, we don't eat.'

Looking back, we had the hard time, but the privilege, of actually coming up playing biker bars and little bitty college bars.

My father was a studio musician, played for a lot of people like Frank Zappa and a lot of R&B bands, and was always gone doing that. Then when he was home, he was practicing. And so I always saw it, and I always wanted to do what he did.

Later when I was in Mithibai College, Mumbai, I was a singer for a rock band.

I dropped out of college and started gigging around Brighton.

I was definitely thinking I'd go to college and make music on the side.

Growing up, I played in different bands and did a lot of self-booked touring and traveling around, and my sister was driving us on tour, and we're playing for nobody and literally begging my friends that I went to high school with to buy tickets to our shows.

In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.

For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.

Rock 'n' roll and playing live is very addictive. But you have to really be careful, because you don't want to do it all the time. It's like when you are young and you think if you are not having sex you're wasting your time. But as you get older you realise everything has its place. It's the same thing with performing.... Performing is a great thing to do but you don't want to have to be doing it every night.

I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.