Top 35 Randy Travis Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It’s what you leave behind you when you go.”

— Randy Travis

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2. “There’s a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what’s good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.”

— Randy Travis

3. “We are soldiers of the cross, we’ve been found to reach the lost.”

— Randy Travis

4. “To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.”

— Randy Travis

5. “My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.”

— Randy Travis

6. “I’m happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.”

— Randy Travis

7. “Honey, I don’t care, I ain’t in love with your hair, and if it all fell out I’d love you anyway.”

— Randy Travis

8. “The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you’re going to go down.”

— Randy Travis

9. “There’s a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.”

— Randy Travis

10. “In the God of all creation, we put our faith and trust. And give our lives to you, cause you gave your life for us.”

— Randy Travis

11. “Your heroes will help you find good in yourself.”

— Randy Travis

12. “I’ve learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.”

— Randy Travis

13. “I just couldn’t stand school. If I went, I’d skip after the first class. I didn’t like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There’s a fact that you have to want to learn.”

— Randy Travis

14. “For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a persons soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.”

— Randy Travis

15. “I don’t know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.”

— Randy Travis

16. “Maybe we could learn a little lesson, maybe this all shine a little light, cause there’s no healthy way to mess with the line between wrong and right.”

— Randy Travis

17. “I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.”

— Randy Travis

18. “You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.”

— Randy Travis

19. “I love finding songs, going through them, tearing them apart, and seeing if I can find anything wrong with them.”

— Randy Travis

20. “In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won’t let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole.”

— Randy Travis

21. “History will tell the story, America will always stand.”

— Randy Travis

22. “When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.”

— Randy Travis

23. “I’ve been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I’ve been working full time since I was 16.”

— Randy Travis

24. “A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat.”

— Randy Travis

25. “You almost felt sorry for the devil cause heaven knows he didn’t have a prayer, when Mama prayed.”

— Randy Travis

26. “You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.”

— Randy Travis

27. “I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.”

— Randy Travis

28. “They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it’s a crime to pray.”

— Randy Travis

29. “I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart.”

— Randy Travis

30. “The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.”

— Randy Travis

31. “I know the author of my every breath, oh that’s Jesus.”

— Randy Travis

32. “Armies gather in the East for the war that’s soon to come. Death will march with the mark of the beast, so seek the light and walk with the Son.”

— Randy Travis

33. “America is not divided, our enemies they will be stopped. Cause we the people are united, and still one nation under God.”

— Randy Travis

34. “My future plans are simple. I’m going to love God forever. I’m going to love my family and friends forever. I’m going to love my fans forever. And I’m going to love you “Forever and Ever, Amen.”

— Randy Travis

35. “Mother Teresa comment, “I’m not here to be successful; I’m here to be faithful.”

— Randy Travis