Darius Rucker quotes

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season. (Darius Rucker)

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

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

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I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

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My family lives a pretty normal life.

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I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business. (Darius Rucker)

I expect to make a career out of country music.

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One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that.

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

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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.

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

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When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

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Rucker sings of loss and despair as if they've left him shell-shocked. But Hootie -- born at frat parties and still a bar band at heart -- know how to deliver beers-and-tears material, and the occasional anti-racist slam, with a smile. The same sly grin crept into songs of frustration -- country writer Radney Foster's "A Fine Line" and the Who's "I Can't Explain." But Rucker is no more Charley Pride than Bryan is Pete Townshend.

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