Quotes by Rodney Atkins - Page 1

There's an intelligent redneck in all of us somewhere.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Intelligent
Redneck
Somewhere
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There's nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Easy
Special
Come
Nothing
Me
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I am spiritual. I believe God loves and is pulling for all of us.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
God Believe I Am
Loves
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I started out singing covers. I've sung a lot of 'em and love a lot of 'em.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Covers
Sung
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I don't take a second for granted of the honor of representing country music.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Granted
Honor
Representing
Music Country Country Music
Country Music
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I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Backyards
Family And Friends
Good Food
Playing Music
Family Good Food
Family Good Music
Backyard
Enjoying
Friends And Family
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Just when I thought it couldnt get no hotter I fell in love with the farmer's daughter
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Daughter
Country
Song
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I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Balls
Caps
Funeral
Prefer
Cap
Funerals
Mostly
Performed
Weddings
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If I spent the rest of my life getting even with the people that had helped me out, I would never settle the score.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Score
Life Me My Life
Settle
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I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Concerts
Crowds
Rocks
Singing
Lift
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My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Music Always Me
Country Music
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With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Better Off
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You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Adopted
Gap
Margaret
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I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Small Town
Nowhere
Big City
Rural
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I have a two year old. Just turned two a couple weeks ago, and he is my main man, he is my shadow. Every spare second, I am hanging with him.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Men
Couple
Years
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Right now my favorite TV show - because it's too close to home - is 'My Name Is Earl.' That show kills me. There's some funny stuff in there.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Funny Stuff
Funny Home Me
Earl
Tv Show
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It's really hard to find a love song that is real. That's when you really strike a chord with somebody, when you dig in deep and grab a hold.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Song
Chord
Dig
Grab
Hold
Strike
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But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Equilibrium
Fall
Vertigo
Easily
Lean
Leaning
Lose
Realize
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Some people grab my hair and pull it out. People write on my jeans when I'm on stage. They write on my boots - their phone number, name or whatever.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Boots
Jeans
Phone
Grab
Phone Number
Pull
Some People
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My family and I are just regular folks, just trying to get through the day and do the best you can and pay the bills, and that's who we're singing to.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Bills
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If you're going through hell, Keep on going, don't slow down, If you're scared, don't show it You might get out Before the devil even knows you're there.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Advice
Devil
Might
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I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Men
Lucky
Prayer
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Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking the songs lightly and trying to make sure I've got consistency.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Consistency
Fortunate
Survived
Thrive
Lightly
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It's still a trip for me to see somebody that I've only seen on television or in a movie. When they are there in real life, it's very different. When we played Detroit, Kevin Costner played before us.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Detroit
Real Life
Life Me See
Life Me Real
Costner
Trip
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There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother. Awhile back, my birth mom and my adopted mom came to my show together, and it was pretty surreal.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Adopted
Birth
Shack
Surreal
Mom Together Me
Awhile
Circle
Meeting
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You choose to be happy, and in life we have as many good days as bad days. I try to find and record those songs that pull you through the bad days, and keep you believing that the good days are just around the corner.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Life Good Bad
Bad Days
Be Happy
Believing
Corner
Pull
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Every song youre trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that Im really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where youre from.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Different
Song
Trying
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I don't want to sing songs that aren't worth while. Time is so rare. I just don't want to waste the listener's time and I think that my songs don't do that. That's what I pray for. I want songs that really touch people's hearts.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Waste
Pray
Touch
Rare
Hearts
Listener
Pray For
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Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Inspirational
Different Ways
Relate
Connect
Drawn
Lift
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When you're adopted, no matter what, you've got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you're the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I'm so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Unconditional Love
Adopted
Birth
Decision
Grateful
Rough
Situation
Unconditional
Worst
Life Love Mom
Came
Product
Start
Young Girl
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When I did 'The Tonight Show' and Jay Leno was still there, he was very nice but it was surreal. It's like you can't believe you're standing there talking to that person. If you've seen them in a lot of movies or on TV you feel like you know them, just like my fans feel like they know me.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Standing
Surreal
Tonight
Jay
Jay Leno
Leno
Tonight Show
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The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
College Football
Football
Fun
Live Performance
Luck
Predicting
Rivals
Thrown
Winning
Football I Am Me
Alley
Analytical
Extremely
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I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Opportunity
Heart
Iowa
Manhattan
Strange
Tennessee
Breaks
Directions
Rural
Third
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I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Love
Mom
Adopted
Baby
Charm
Infection
Mom And Dad
Orphanage
Respiratory
Love Time Family
Love Family Time
Returned
Sets
Sickly
They Say
Third
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You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard most of what I've recorded, you know me. You go from 'Honesty' to 'Going Through Hell' - you can listen to the hits, and they pretty much reflect who I am. 'Take a Back Road' is the same thing.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Artist
Honesty
No Idea
Who I Am
Hits
Reflect
Same Thing
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I started doing some demos and got online and bought a refurbished laptop, bought a microphone off of eBay. A lot of folks said you can't really do it that way at a pro level, but I did some vocals that way, turned it into the label and they said, 'Wow, where did you record this? The vocals sound great!'
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Demos
Ebay
Online
Bought
Label
Microphone
Pro
Vocals
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I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I was breathing correctly. So, I started doing vocal exercises and would stretch out before I sang, stuff to help my breathing. It's funny, you breathe your whole life then you find out you're not doing it correctly.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Bad Habits
Breathe
Breathing
Exercise
Focused
Good Habits
Stuff
Vocal
Life Funny Good
Correctly
Exercises
Habits
Sang
Stretch
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The way I heard about The American Giving Awards was from the people that I work with. My publicist and I had a conversation a while back about wanting to really get involved more and more. We've been working with the National Council for Adoption with the children's home that I was adopted from called Holston Home.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Adopted
Awards
Conversation
Council
Work Home People
Work Home Children
More And More
Publicist
Wanting
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I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Anniversary
Smile
Thanksgiving
Morning
Deer
Fun
Hunting
Looking Forward
Warm
Actual
Gear
Parade
Participant
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You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Blank
Blank Canvas
Canvas
Closest
Eye
Magic
Painting
Silence
Song
Songwriters
Tears
Wind
Writing
Life Love Change
Closest Thing
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It's just a blessing. Artists search and search for songs that will connect for a new artist because the familiarity is so low. People don't know what you look like. It's just so unbelievable to find a song that people are relating to. To have a song that people will actually pick up the phone and call the station to ask. It's a blessing.
Rodney Atkins / Musical Artist
Artist
Blessing
Song
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