Top 35 Josh Turner Quotes

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’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.

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.

Who’s not a fan of Don Williams? He’s the gentle giant.

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.

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.

Sometimes it feels like I’ve been in the business forever, but then other times, it feels like kind of a flash. Growing up, all I wanted to do was sing. All I wanted to do was get on a bus and ride around the country and sing for people and be a household name.

The coolest gift I’ve ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It’s a collector’s item and came with a case and a stand and everything.

I didn’t have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I’ve been very blessed in my life to have a wife who loves me and supports me and is able to be in my band and travel with me.

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.

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 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.

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.

Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.

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

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

I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. ‘Long Black Train,’ the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I’ve been out here promoting that purpose.

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 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.

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.

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

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 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’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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A No. 1 record is hard to come by.