Josh Turner Quotes
I don't feel like God called me to be a Gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer, he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.
Look to the Heavens, you can look to the skies. You can find redemption staring back into your eyes.
I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.
I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.
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.
My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.
I'm not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride.
I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.
I haven't always been the guy that walks into a room and automatically the attention is on me. I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.
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.
'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.
I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.
When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?
I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.
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.
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.
Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey thats slowing everybody else down... not for a while, at least.
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.
I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.
Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.
It's so cool for me to do what I love to do for a living and meet people from all over the world.
We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!
The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's what makes music real.
I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.
I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.
