Trace Adkins
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 don't do the same show on any two nights.
People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.
I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.
It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Baby
You can raise her up a lady but there's one thing you just can't avoid.Collection: Raises
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.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Night
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.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Country
I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.Collection: Actors
George Jones was my friend and I loved him.Collection: George Jones