Top 66 Darius Rucker Quotes

No doubt about it, country is a much more family-friendly business than pop.

Whether you are on stage or playing golf, all it takes is one person to throw everything off.

If you hear a song and you like it, you like it.

Everybody wants to have a good time, especially at a concert. That’s why everybody goes.

Romantic stuff is not something I really remember.

I love Christmas. I love the music… I love everything about Christmas. I’m a big fan.

I’m going to make country records back to back for a while – until country radio doesn’t want me anymore or until I get my own theater in Branson – one of the two.

Every time I have a song that does well, that’s a great feeling to have.

Everything that I do on stage comes from seeing the Black Crowes in ’95 in Charlotte. For ‘Let Her Cry,’ I was just trying to write ‘She Talks to Angels.’

Arnold Palmer is my favorite, just getting to know him and all of the film on him and his game. He was the first real superstar in golf. You had Bobby Jones and all of those guys, but Arnold Palmer was bigger than life.

I’ll take the kids to school after breakfast. I love doing that – love being a dad.

I’m black because I was born this way. I’m proud of it. Thank God I am who I am.

The first year I started liking the Dolphins was Super Bowl VI, which they lost to the Cowboys. I was 5. My whole family was pulling for the Cowboys, so I rooted for the Dolphins. They lost, and I cried.

It’s always a positive when radio is playing your music and fans are responding.

There’s nothing like sitting and watching the Masters on TV.

I love Bob Dylan. ‘Blood on the Tracks’ is one of my top five records.

You always wanna make the best record you ever made, and if I feel like I didn’t do that, I wouldn’t put it out.

I make records so I can go on tour. There’s nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

Billy Graham isn’t about politics – Billy Graham is about God.

I expect to make a career out of country music.

If I did a show and didn’t do Hootie songs, I would be ripping people off.

There’s two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

Country music’s so about the nuclear family and living the southern lifestyle and everything.

One of my pet peeves is when people think that pop guys go country when they can’t make it in pop anymore.

A lot of times, I don’t want to listen to my stuff, because I’m thinking maybe I didn’t do my best.

I’d work with Charles Kelley anytime. I’d go do a ‘Pancho and Lefty’ record with Charles. He is class, man.

I’m a big Black Crowes guy. I think they are one of America’s greatest rock & roll bands ever.

Great music will always rise to the top if you give it a chance.

My family lives a pretty normal life.

Every time I make a record, it’s make-or-break time. I hope I always have that mentality – that’s what keeps me fired up.

We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I’m really looking forward to going.

I love jam bands, but I still like a three-and-a-half-minute rock song.

It’s hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!

I think people who go out and tell you how much they’re gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I’m never trying to change anything. That’s not for me.

As a kid, I was big into Al Green, Gladys Knight and the Pips, but as I got older, I started listening to all sorts of music, including country.

I’m such a lover of golf, and I’ve been at the Masters a couple times, and I’ve been so blessed to get to play there.

Ric Flair was such a huge part of my childhood and teen years. He’s an icon.

I live for the NFL. I watch so much of it.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn’t back out after a first single. Everyone’s so used to hearing me with Hootie, they’re going to be skeptical.

Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That’s what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.

When I’m singing a song, I’m in that song, and I’m thinking about what emotions I should bring to the song. Voicing a character was very similar. It was high energy, and I had to really think about the emotion of what was going on in the scene.

We work so hard to stay true to country music. People can say they don’t like it, but they can’t say it’s not country.

We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it.

Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

I remember my brother was always a jerk to me. One time, he bought Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Smash Hits,’ and he gave it to me because he didn’t like it, thinking it was a punishment.

I’m a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn’t worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

If my music career was my golf game, I’d be playing for about 26 people tonight somewhere.

If it wasn’t for Kenny Rogers, I don’t think I would be in country music. He was that guy when I was a kid – his music and ‘Hee Haw’ made me perk my ears up and made me say, ‘What is this? I want to hear more of that.’ He was that catalyst for me to start this whole run in country music.

I grew up in South Carolina. A lot of what I remember back in the day is AM radio. When I was a kid, you could hear Stevie Wonder and Buck Owens on the same station. All the walls and lines between music were taken down for me.

People go, ‘Oh, you’re another guy who crossed over to country.’ I say, name another one. Name one other pop singer who’s done what I’ve done as a country singer. There isn’t one.

I plan to make records as long as people wanna keep listening to them.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that I’ve always wanted to make since I was a kid.

I’d be lying to say I’ve not experienced a lot of racism in my life; it’s very much alive. I don’t let it bother me. I couldn’t be the singer I am if I didn’t let it go.

I believe that one of the reasons I get to play golf all over the world is because of the barriers that Lee Elder broke down. I just think he’s amazing.

The worst thing for me when I go to a concert is a whole bunch of ballads. You get bored.

For me, the Mount Rushmore of greats would be Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Hulk Hogan, Bruno Sammartino or Lou Thesz. You can do either one of them in that fourth spot. But I think Ric Flair is the greatest of all time. He’s the greatest I’ve ever seen… on the mic and in the ring.

It’s about the music, not the color of the person playing the music.

I think the people who are sitting in their living room doing those, ‘Let’s take country music back’ blogs and all that stuff, that’s crazy to me. No one’s saying that about rock & roll, and no one sounded like the Beatles since 1960. No one says that about R&B, and no one sounded like the Commodores since 1970.

When you hear people scream because they’re about to hear a song that has been a part of their life, there’s nothing like that.

I used to love watching ‘Hee Haw’ on TV when I was a kid. My brothers and sisters weren’t happy about it, but I just loved the music.

Everybody’s got problems, and if you’re gonna leave somebody because they have problems, you’re gonna be alone for a long time.

One of the great reasons to be in Nashville is, you get guys like Shane McAnally to write songs with.

Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don’t talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don’t care how many records they sell.

I work hard to let my wife know how much I love her. I try to do that every day.

I played every position, from right tackle to quarterback and everything in between.

I always tell people, the first time I heard ‘She Talks To Angels,’ those lyrics did something to me.