Quotes from Kenny Rogers

Know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um and know when to walk away from cameramen.

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

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

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

The music business is strictly business.

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.

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

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

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

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done.

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!

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