Randy Travis
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.Collection: Patience
It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.
You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.
You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.
To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.
I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.
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.
I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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.
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 person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.
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.
I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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.
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.
There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.Collection: Philosophy
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.Collection: Philosophy
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.Collection: Religious
Your heroes will help you find good in yourself.Collection: Hero
We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.Collection: Soldier
There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.Collection: Effort
You dont have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish Id come to mine earlier than I did.Collection: Wish
After youve been married quite a few years, you learn to take orders; it just comes easy.Collection: Order
I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: War
History will tell the story, America will always stand.Collection: America
You almost felt sorry for the devil cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer, when Mama prayed.Collection: Prayer
I never felt at peace with anything or anybody.Collection: Felt
I never thought I'd be a good influence on anybody with anything I did or said or sang.Collection: Influence
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.Collection: Education
They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.Collection: Wall
If you wonder how long Ill be faithful. I'll be happy to tell you again. I'm gonna love you forever & ever, forever & ever amen.Collection: Anniversary
I know the author of my every breath, oh that's Jesus.Collection: Education
Honey, I don't care, I ain't in love with your hair, and if it all fell out I'd love you anyway.Collection: Love You
The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.Collection: Education
When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.Collection: Family
I never had peace of mind.Collection: Mind
When I got into my early 20s, I was going to bed one nightI was still drinking, still using drugs, and probably was drunk or high or both when I just picked up the Bible and started reading to go to sleep. I was amazed at how well I slept, but even beyond that, the next day, there was this peace of mind that was still there that I wasnt used to.Collection: Reading
America is not divided, our enemies they will be stopped. Cause we the people are united, and still one nation under God.Collection: America
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.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Letting Go
A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat.Collection: Infidelity
I'm singing. I'm a singer!Collection: Singing
My Mom and Dad had six kids, and four of the six were going down the same road I was.Collection: Mom
I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.' None of it took with me.Collection: Kids
I have to look to my wife.Collection: Wife