Top 40 Kenny Rogers Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You gotta know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, know when to walk away, know when to run.”

— Kenny Rogers

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2. “Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.”

— Kenny Rogers

3. “With all my heart, and all my soul, I will love you till the winds don’t blow. Until the oceans turn to stone, my love is yours and yours alone. My love is forever, until forever’s gone.”

— Kenny Rogers

4. “You can’t make old friends. You either have them or you don’t.”

— Kenny Rogers

5. “Friendships come and go, but families are forever...”

— Kenny Rogers

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

— Kenny Rogers

7. “I’ve always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.”

— Kenny Rogers

8. “Stay away from trouble when you can.”

— Kenny Rogers

9. “There’ll be time enough for counting when the dealing’s done.”

— Kenny Rogers

10. “Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.”

— Kenny Rogers

11. “There is a trade off – as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.”

— Kenny Rogers

12. “I was raised in the church.”

— Kenny Rogers

13. “Sometimes you’ve got to fight when your a man.”

— Kenny Rogers

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

— Kenny Rogers

15. “It won’t mean you’re weak if you turn the other cheek.”

— Kenny Rogers

16. “I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that’s been coming my way.”

— Kenny Rogers

17. “I love Viagra. I don’t need it, but I tried it. It’s a great legal drug.”

— Kenny Rogers

18. “The Hall of Fame is forever, baby!”

— Kenny Rogers

19. “If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.”

— Kenny Rogers

20. “I feel like I learn something from everything I do.”

— Kenny Rogers

21. “If I could undo what’s been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.”

— Kenny Rogers

22. “Every hand’s a winner, and every hand’s a loser, and the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.”

— Kenny Rogers

23. “I think when you’re in the public eye, you feel a pressure to stay younger looking.”

— Kenny Rogers

24. “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.”

— Kenny Rogers

25. “Daytime friends and night time lovers, hoping that no one else discovers.”

— Kenny Rogers

26. “I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.”

— Kenny Rogers

27. “I’m so totally future oriented that, for me, I don’t know what the future’s about, but I can promise you it’s gonna be exciting.”

— Kenny Rogers

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

— Kenny Rogers

29. “I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.”

— Kenny Rogers

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

— Kenny Rogers

31. “I think it’s fun to play for people who don’t know what you do.”

— Kenny Rogers

32. “I’m much more comfortable singing than talking.”

— Kenny Rogers

33. “People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.”

— Kenny Rogers

34. “The music business is strictly business.”

— Kenny Rogers

35. “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!”

— Kenny Rogers

36. “Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It’s like a bit of the perfect storm.”

— Kenny Rogers

37. “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.”

— Kenny Rogers

38. “I never had a doubt in my mind. I always knew that, with the right material, I could pop a hit.”

— Kenny Rogers

39. “You know, I’ve always said, I’ve never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I’ve always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.”

— Kenny Rogers

40. “You know, when you’re poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don’t know that everybody’s not poor.”

— Kenny Rogers

41. “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.”

— Kenny Rogers

42. “George Jones will always be one of the most amazing singers who ever lived. He was a true Country Music legend who made music very personal to the listener – I think more than anyone else. He will be dearly missed, but always remembered.”

— Kenny Rogers

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

— Kenny Rogers

44. “We did some massive flirting in front of the nation, but there was never anything more than that.”

— Kenny Rogers

45. “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.”

— Kenny Rogers

46. “It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.”

— Kenny Rogers

47. “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.”

— Kenny Rogers

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

— Kenny Rogers

49. “It’s not all wet towels and naked women. I was so disappointed to learn that.”

— Kenny Rogers