Blake Shelton

Singer

1976-06-18

Blake Shelton is an American country singer and television personality with multiple chart-topping country singles. He is also known for long-running coaching roles on televised music competitions.

Quotes by Blake Shelton

I've driven in L.A. probably three times. I'm a slug in L.A.
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I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes.
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I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.
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I'm good at anything that's country - biscuits, gravy, chicken-fried steak. Look at me, for God's sake. I cook what I like to eat.
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Not everybody in the country-music community is like me - I just happen to be one of the guys that is stereotypical.
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We were playing a fair, and a few people were handing me stuffed animals and flowers, but one person handed me a paper sack. So I took all the stuff back to the bus. I put the sack in my lap and opened it, and a live iguana jumped out of the sack and onto my shirt. I screamed like a little girl!
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I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.
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I'm not a summertime guy. The only time I really enjoy the summer is touring and performing because there is nothing else for me to do at home. It's too hot, and you can't farm. You can't hunt.
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Nobody's gonna beat Taylor Swift in a fan-voted thing. And nobody should, by the way.
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I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.
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The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly.
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I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management.
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I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.
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Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.
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The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It was more about keeping the kids calm. Sometime after dark is when we were going to open all the presents underneath the tree from Mom, Dad and the kids and everything - just the family presents was every Christmas Eve.
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I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable.
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I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.
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I remember telling the head of Warner Brothers that if they'd just make a video for 'Ol' Red'... and if it didn't work, they could drop me from the label.
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