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Josh Turner Quotes

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.

– Josh Turner

I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It’s not like that anymore, needless to say.

– Josh Turner

My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn’t going to be from just one location.

– Josh Turner

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

– Josh Turner

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.

– Josh Turner

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.

– Josh Turner

‘All Over Me’ is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.

– Josh Turner

I didn’t rebel in the way a lot of people do.

– Josh Turner

It’s hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.

– Josh Turner

‘Haywire’ is full of different kinds of love songs. It’s definitely country and a little something for everybody. I feel like the subject matter goes a little deeper about love and relationships.

– Josh Turner

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.

– Josh Turner

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.

– Josh Turner

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.

– Josh Turner

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.

– Josh Turner

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

– Josh Turner

My granddaddy on my momma’s side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine’s Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.

– Josh Turner

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.

– Josh Turner

You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It’s funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn’t go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.

– Josh Turner

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.

– Josh Turner

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.

– Josh Turner

When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me, so it’s hard to break away and just be a songwriter.

– Josh Turner

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.

– Josh Turner

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.

– Josh Turner

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.

– Josh Turner

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.

– Josh Turner

What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by myself. That was how I celebrated getting a record deal.

– Josh Turner

I feel like the live record thing is something that I’ve been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I’m continuing to learn what works and what doesn’t work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record.

– Josh Turner

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

– Josh Turner

I’ve never had the patience of a teacher.

– Josh Turner

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.

– Josh Turner

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