There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um and know when to walk away from cameramen.

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

I feel like I learn something from everything I do.

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.

I still like going on the road and performing, but it's getting tougher. I try to have my wife and the twins with me but it's getting harder and harder for them. They need to be in a home environment and not traveling with me.

I think when you're in the public eye, you feel a pressure to stay younger looking.

I was raised in the church.

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

I've always said that gray hair looks good on everybody but yourself. To me, it makes me look old.

If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.

The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost touch with reality.

You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.

You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

You got to know when to hold em know when to fold em Know when to walk away and know when to run.

With Country Music you have one hit and those people love you forever.

Youve got to know when to hold em know when to fold em know when to walk away know when to run.

Growing older is not upsetting being perceived as old is.

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.