Trace Adkins Quotations

If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.

It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.

I don't do the same show on any two nights.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

We started hearing from folks who have family members deployed, and 'Arlington' was making them feel uneasy and more apprehensive than they were feeling, ... I can understand that.

We're here for him, ... He's been coming here for years. It was a family tradition.

Shoot, we go through hundreds of songs to find 12, ... It's like that on every album that I do.

I thought the song would be a hit, but this is something else. It has taken on a life of its own. I?m just standing on the side letting it be.

I went to a Grammy party the other night. I had all these British dudes coming up to me, just patting me on the back. ... It was one of the strangest experiences of my life.

Like tonight, I've got to go on stage, and man, my stomach has been hurting a lot, ... I'm dreading it. My gut's been cramping up, and it's burning, and I pretty much just want to sit here. When you hit the stage, you don't have the luxury of acting like you don't want to be there. You have to be on.

Who knew? I figured if people could stomach it, it would do good.

I've been in that situation many times, telling people why country music is important, and this is my chance to stand up for this genre.

There would always be some drunk who couldn't go home without a good beating. I'd try to talk him out of it.

This is basically an advertisement for your farm, ... The dairy industry isn't in great shape right now. The economy is putting the hurt on everybody, so you do everything you can to promote your business.

It was never intended to make anyone feel uneasy; that was the last thing in the world that I would want to happen,

They know who I am, where I come from, what I'm about. I go out there and it is what it is. If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.

I know there are a lot of country music fans in New York City but the problem with doing a show in New York City is its very difficult to promote,

If you look at it as trying to broaden the appeal and kind of get out of the box and maybe reach some people who otherwise don't become exposed to country music, it could turn out to be a really good thing,

In the little bitty town, everyone knows what you're doing.

I don't think most people are aware of what a contribution to the sound of country music Buck had.

George Jones was my friend and I loved him.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.

Anytime you get out of your comfort zone and you have to do something that you're not comfortable doing and that you're not real sure of yourself in, there's an exhilaration that comes along with that. I get off on it, so that's why I enjoy making movies.

When I'm singing a song on stage, I hate hypocrites. If you don't put yourself in that lyric and emote and be what that lyric says that you are, then you're just going through the motions and you're being hypocritical. I just take that same approach with acting. I just take the dialogue and I emote it and become that. I use the same technic.

I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.

I love playing the CMA Music Festival each year because it's one of the very best audiences you could hope for. It's one of the places you can perform where you know everyone there is a big Country Music fan.

There's a gratification that comes from performing in front of a live audience, and you can't replicate that with anything else. In the studio, the creation part of this business is fun. But, when you see the fans letting you know that they enjoy what you're doing, that's why I keep doing what I do.

You're gonna miss this, you're gonna want this back. You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast. These are some good times, so take a good look around. You may not know it now, but you're gonna miss this.

You can raise her up a lady but there’s one thing you just can't avoid...

Country music fans are the best everywhere and they've always made me feel like I'm at home, no matter what zip code I'm in. I just want to thank them from the bottom of my heart for blessing me with such an incredible career that I truly enjoy.