Rodney Atkins Quotes

#1. I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.

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#2. You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

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#3. If I spent the rest of my life getting even with the people that had helped me out, I would never settle the score.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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#13. I am spiritual. I believe God loves and is pulling for all of us.

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#14. The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.

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#15. There's nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy.

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#16. Just when I thought it couldnt get no hotter
I fell in love with the farmer's daughter

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#17. 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.

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#18. 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.

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#19. 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.

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#20. I started out singing covers. I've sung a lot of 'em and love a lot of 'em.

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#21. 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.

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#22. I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

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#23. 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.

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#24. I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts ... they are anthems and they lift up your life.

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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.

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#27. 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.

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#28. 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.

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#29. 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.

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#30. I don't take a second for granted of the honor of representing country music.

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#31. 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.

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#32. 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.

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#33. I like to write at home a lot.

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#34. There's an intelligent redneck in all of us somewhere.

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