Top 40 Bobby Bones Quotes

While I can hold my own with great talents and have an opinion in the face of big personalities, I’m just a regular guy. I’ve accepted my position in life: that I’m never going to be that cool. And I’m okay with that.

I was always the pop guy that was a little too country. I talked a little too country; I brought the country artists in.

I’ve been doing stand-up since I was 19. There have been times I’ve had to step away because of my schedule, but now I’m able to go out and do theaters and not smoky little bars.

I want to be the governor of Arkansas. I’m going to be the governor of Arkansas. I might be president, but I will be the governor of Arkansas.

A wise man once said, ‘Instead of crying, I keep on trying.’ And that wise man is me, because I just made that up. I think.

I won because I was the people’s favorite dancer, and that’s what I work with these Idols on. There have been 1,000 singers before you that are as good or better than you, but you’re not trying to be the best singer ever. You’re trying to be the people’s favorite singer.

The way I look at it, every day that I’m moving forward is a day I’m not moving backward. Just the fact that I’m in the race at all is a miracle.

Having grown up a trailer park kid on welfare and food stamps, becoming jaded is impossible, although now I make a good living, which I’m not ashamed of; when you’ve been poor, it never leaves you.

Authenticity in any format is important, so I try as hard as I can to stay as real as possible.

I grew up in Mountain Pine, Arkansas. You get no more country than where I grew up. But I also grew up in the Napster / iTunes / Spotify/ iHeart Radio era, and so I see that everything is influenced by everything else, and that’s what country music is now.

I think the role was great; I loved working with all of the people at ‘Idol.’

I think funny comes from tragedy and time. And I think that’s where I get it. I’m able to take things that are serious and sad, and turn it into funny. In all honesty – this is after a lot of therapy – I think that, you know, I need love from something, and so now, I find it through performing.

I don’t believe in luck. I don’t believe in destiny. Instead, I believe that our lives are powered by countless microdecisions.

I usually work, like, 27 days in a row and then take one off.

As long as everyone is having fun, especially our listeners, that’s what counts. I try to put my team in the best spot possible for them to win and to deliver a great show to our listeners.

My mom got pregnant when she was 15. She dropped out of high school. She died in her forties, but before she died, she went back and finished high school.

Everything that I do should be wrong, but I started really young, and I just learned how to learn. I would fail, and I would figure out why that didn’t go right and do it again.

I have 50 rejected TV show ideas. I think when I hit 100, then I’ll feel like I really started to make it.

Like many other people, I grew up with so much adversity and negativity, it would have been easy to get overwhelmed and give in. But by turning negatives into positives, losing into a journey to winning, I have been able to overcome the odds that were against me and change them into motivation for my success.

I fail at things all the time. I’m always being told no. I just get back up and try again.

I’m not a guy who looks for signs in the universe to tell him things. I believe that if you search hard enough for the answer you already know, you will find it.

I have the best people around me. None of them have ever been on the radio. They’re all such great people, and I found that I was able to be a better person when I was doing the radio show. It kept me from being a radio person.

We can all pick a goal and find a reason to do it. Then some of us can actually do all the little things over and over again. That’s definitely a harder step. Doing it again? That’s where it gets to be a beast, when you have to repeat. It’s the hardest part of it all.

I’m from Arkansas, so I didn’t even know who Howard Stern was until I was about 18 or 19. I only kind of knew what I had heard about him; then I saw him doing his thing. That’s what I really liked about him.

The radio show is absolutely the most important thing. It always comes first.

Every time we do anything, Austin’s the No. 1 place of all that supports it. Austin is our biggest philanthropic helper, even for things that have nothing to do with Austin or Texas.

I’m a decent writer, barely a decent guitar player, and a terrible singer.

I’ve built a career on the survival skill I honed early on: being a smart aleck who is good with a fast comeback.

I was seeing on the ground floor that labels weren’t investing in females, and it trickled upward because I was in radio with none to play. I know that I can’t change today, but what I can do is work on the culture for tomorrow.

My grandmother adopted me for a while, and I was bouncing around a bit. I was always helped by the PTA and church groups with food and Christmas presents. It’s a hard cycle to break, because when you don’t have the resources, it’s almost impossible.

I felt like it was the space that I could be the most authentic of anywhere because of how I grew up. Even though some of the songs and some of the texture wasn’t what I like, I felt like country music was more authentic, in general, than anywhere else.

I think I felt very alone for a lot of my life, but once I was able to share my story more and more, and people wouldn’t say, ‘Hey, I felt sorry for you,’ but, ‘I get it, and I understand you,’ it kind of encouraged me to tell it more. I just don’t want people to feel alone.

If I put a statement about being the best interviewer into the universe, I must now live up to it, or at least be held accountable for it. Either way, I’m going to work that much harder.

I take pride in how I interview people. One of the things people come to our show for most is the interaction I have with the artists; it feels very peer-to-peer.

The first book was a life story that I was hesitant to write anyway because I didn’t feel like I had a real life story… It was a surprise hit.

I would watch a lot of old tapes of David Letterman doing his talk show and a lot of interviews. I never had a mentor in my career because my approach has always been so different. Letterman stayed true to who he was, and his staff was always fantastic, so for me, that was always important.

For me, it has always been about using my platform to help others.

I think my career has been instances of me trying to figure out ways to get around doing it the right way because I don’t think I have the tools to do it the right way. There’s a talent to that.

The medical protocol for poor people is, if something hurts, get over it. If something hurts real bad, put salve on it.

By turning negatives into positives, losing into a journey to winning, I have been able to overcome the odds that were against me into motivation for my success.