Top 40 Josh Turner Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I love my boys. I love watching them growing up. I love seeing them develop, and I’m always looking forward to seeing what they’re going to become and what they’re going to be interested in later in life.”

— Josh Turner

2. “I’m thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I’m talking to him all day, every day, about anything and everything. It’s just a continuous ongoing conversation that I have with the Lord, and I feel like that’s brought me closer to Him.”

— Josh Turner

3. “You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That’s when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That’s what ‘Time Is Love’ is all about.”

— Josh Turner

4. “I haven’t always been the guy that walks into a room and automatically the attention is on me. I’m normally the guy that stands off in the corner.”

— Josh Turner

5. “We all have those days when you feel like you’re against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!”

— Josh Turner

6. “Look to the Heavens, you can look to the skies. You can find redemption staring back into your eyes.”

— Josh Turner

7. “The most important thing for any business is marketing and sales.”

— Josh Turner

8. “I’ve found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.”

— Josh Turner

9. “I’m a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I’ve been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn’t walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn’t walking the walk.”

— Josh Turner

10. “Position yourself above the fray, and prospects will be far more approachable than when you’re just another me-too competitor in a crowded sea.”

— Josh Turner

11. “I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do – amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.”

— Josh Turner

12. “Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn’t be able to do otherwise.”

— Josh Turner

13. “I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. ‘Long Black Train,’ the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I’ve been out here promoting that purpose.”

— Josh Turner

14. “Don’t let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.”

— Josh Turner

15. “I care about my legacy that I’m leaving, not only for my fans, but for my wife and my children and my grandchildren. I want them to look back and say, ‘He did it right and he stood up for what is right.’”

— Josh Turner

16. “You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It’s funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn’t go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.”

— Josh Turner

17. “I didn’t have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I’ve been very blessed in my life to have a wife who loves me and supports me and is able to be in my band and travel with me.”

— Josh Turner

18. “I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It’s not like that anymore, needless to say.”

— Josh Turner

19. “I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That’s something that I’ve never really given up since high school.”

— Josh Turner

20. “My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else – that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.”

— Josh Turner

21. “Who’s not a fan of Don Williams? He’s the gentle giant.”

— Josh Turner

22. “I don’t feel like God called me to be a Gospel singer. He didn’t call me to be a Christian singer, he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.”

— Josh Turner

23. “I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.”

— Josh Turner

24. “The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that’s what makes music real.”

— Josh Turner

25. “I love Tennessee, but they don’t have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.”

— Josh Turner

26. “I came from a rural background, and I didn’t come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.”

— Josh Turner

27. “It’s hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.”

— Josh Turner

28. “I’ve never had the patience of a teacher.”

— Josh Turner

29. “My granddaddy on my momma’s side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine’s Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.”

— Josh Turner

30. “What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by myself. That was how I celebrated getting a record deal.”

— Josh Turner

31. “When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there’s less and less time for songwriting.”

— Josh Turner

32. “I’m always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I’m a proud father.”

— Josh Turner

33. “I like to fish when it’s not too hot.”

— Josh Turner

34. “I didn’t rebel in the way a lot of people do.”

— Josh Turner

35. “I’m definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.”

— Josh Turner

36. “I don’t ever land on an album title until I know exactly what’s going on the record, because you never know until it’s all said and done.”

— Josh Turner

37. “It’s so cool for me to do what I love to do for a living and meet people from all over the world.”

— Josh Turner

38. “I’ve listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven’t really heard anything that moves me. I don’t know if I’m getting old and crotchety or what.”

— Josh Turner

39. “I’m normally the guy that stands off in the corner.”

— Josh Turner

40. “A No. 1 record is hard to come by.”

— Josh Turner

41. “Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.”

— Josh Turner

42. “When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?”

— Josh Turner

43. “The coolest gift I’ve ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It’s a collector’s item and came with a case and a stand and everything.”

— Josh Turner

44. “One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I’d be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that’s as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.”

— Josh Turner

45. “I’m not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride.”

— Josh Turner