Quotes by Rodney Atkins

About Rodney Atkins:

Rodney Allan Atkins is an American country music artist. Signed to Curb Records in 1996, he charted his first single on the Billboard country chart in 1997, but did not release an album until 2003's Honesty, which included the number 4 hit "Honesty (Write Me a List)".
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I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking fo...

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My family and I are just regular folks, just trying to get through the day and do the best you can and pay the bills, and that's who we're singing to.

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Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking the songs lightly and trying to make sure I've got consistency.

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You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard most of what I've recorded, you know me. You go from 'Honesty' to 'Going Through Hell' - you can listen to the hits, and they pretty much re...

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But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.

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With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

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There's nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy.

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Some people grab my hair and pull it out. People write on my jeans when I'm on stage. They write on my boots - their phone number, name or whatever.

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I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town.

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There's an intelligent redneck in all of us somewhere.

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The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to sa...

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I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.

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You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

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I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

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The way I heard about The American Giving Awards was from the people that I work with. My publicist and I had a conversation a while back about wanting to really get involved more and more. We've been working with the National Council for Adoption wi...

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I like to write at home a lot.

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You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the...

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I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given ea...

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I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into thei...

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I am spiritual. I believe God loves and is pulling for all of us.

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Author Bio

  • NameRodney Atkins
  • DescriptionUS country artist
  • BornMarch 28, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Singer-songwriter; Musician