Josh Turner Quotes

We all have those days when you feel like you’re against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!

I came from a rural background, and I didn’t come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

Look to the Heavens, you can look to the skies. You can find redemption staring back into your eyes.

I’m definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.

I love Jesus Christ with all my heart and everything He stands for. I think that sums up everything that I want for my life, everything I want for my family, everything I want for my career. I want it to be entertaining. I want people to smile and tap their toes, but I want it to be meaningful when the day is done.

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do – amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

I love my boys. I love watching them growing up. I love seeing them develop, and I’m always looking forward to seeing what they’re going to become and what they’re going to be interested in later in life.

I’m a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I’ve been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn’t walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn’t walking the walk.

I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don’t think it’s just a hall of fame and it’s not just a museum. It’s a schoolhouse. It’s a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we’re making a living out of.

My granddaddy on my momma’s side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine’s Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.

I’m normally the guy that stands off in the corner.

Raising three boys is a huge responsibility for me, especially in this day and time when I look around and there’s a lack of good, strong, upstanding Christian men who are not afraid to be men and just own up to their responsibility.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn’t be able to do otherwise.

To think that my heart and my words and my music saved somebody’s life, it takes a while to just sink in with me. But it proves to me that music is powerful.

In today’s time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don’t want to be too personal. If you are, then it probably won’t relate to a mass audience. A lot of times you have to make it sound like it’s about everybody else, but you really went through it.

I haven’t always been the guy that walks into a room and automatically the attention is on me. I’m normally the guy that stands off in the corner.

I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.

My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else – that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.

I have a nice boat that I got a couple of years ago that’s a Skeeter brand that’s 20-foot, center-console. I have it set up for saltwater and for fresh water, so it’s been a nice boat.

I’ve found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by myself. That was how I celebrated getting a record deal.

I like to fish when it’s not too hot.

I love Tennessee, but they don’t have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

You have to take time and make time for each other. My current single ‘Time Is Love’ gives a lot of advice in that area, just spending quantity time with the one you love and the one you care about because that’s when you really develop a relationship.

It’s so cool for me to do what I love to do for a living and meet people from all over the world.

‘All Over Me’ is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.

I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I put all of my heart and soul into these love songs. I know my fans out there are listening, taking these songs to heart. Like I say, they’re relating these songs to their lives, too, and their relationships.

I’ve listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven’t really heard anything that moves me. I don’t know if I’m getting old and crotchety or what.

I’m not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride.

I don’t ever land on an album title until I know exactly what’s going on the record, because you never know until it’s all said and done.

The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that’s what makes music real.

Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that’s fictitious and then there’s other times where I try to write something that’s true.

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there’s less and less time for songwriting.

One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I’d be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that’s as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.

I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It’s not like that anymore, needless to say.

When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me, so it’s hard to break away and just be a songwriter.

I’ve been mocked a lot. I’ve been made fun of, you know, of the standards that I keep out, and that I hold out on the road and the way I conduct my business and myself and the way I behave in this business.

I’m always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I’m a proud father.

I’ve known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion within me to sing country music.

I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards… the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.

It’s hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.

When I’m up on stage, I’m thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I’m at home being a daddy, the last thing I’m thinking about is being an artist. It is two things that I never really put together.

I may never know what type of effect I have on my sons, just like Granny never knew the effect she had on me. So I just try and make the best decisions that I can, be the best father that I can.

I don’t feel like God called me to be a gospel singer. He didn’t call me to be a Christian singer; he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.

We’re blessed to be at a level in my career where I can afford to take out a bus of my own and bring my whole family with me, so that’s great, too. The boys are out with us all the time, and it’s just great to be able to turn around onstage and see my wife back there behind me.

‘Haywire’ is full of different kinds of love songs. It’s definitely country and a little something for everybody. I feel like the subject matter goes a little deeper about love and relationships.

You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That’s when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That’s what ‘Time Is Love’ is all about.

I’m such a perfectionist and I like to have everything just right, but at the same time I try to be as real and as genuine as I can be in my life and in my career.

Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey that’s slowing everybody else down… not for a while, at least.

I don’t feel like God called me to be a Gospel singer. He didn’t call me to be a Christian singer, he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.

I come from big families. My momma was the oldest of three and my daddy was one of six – and I’ve always loved children. They bring a lot of joy to the world and they make us adults look at things in a better way.