Toby Keith Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I'm still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.

I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.

It's that dark cloud, the glass half empty on everything you do. It just becomes too much for me. So I unplugged myself.

My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.

You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war.

It's so hard to decide what to leave out.

Trivia

Toby's next single High Maintenance Woman is set to be released to radio on February 12.

In a poll in Country Weekly magazine Toby was voted man of the year for 2006.

Toby is GAC's artist of the month for December.

Crash Here Tonight ranked #2 on CMT's 20 sexiest videos of 2006.

CMT will air Broken Bridges on December 15, 2006, and the movie will be released on DVD January 9, 2007

A Little Too Late, Big Blue Note, Crash Here Tonight and Get Drunk and Be Somebody have been nominated for GAC's Top 50 Videos of the Year contest, Toby is the only artist to have four videos nomanited.

Sings a duet called Ol' Glory with Jerry Lee Lewis on Lewis's current album Last Man Standing

As Good As I Once Was was named BMI's song of the Year for 2006.

in 2005, Toby performed at the USA Live 8 concert.

Is the spokesman for Ford Trucks

Toby plays Bo Price in the movie Broken Bridges.

An acoustic version of Crash Here Tonight appears on the Broken Bridges Soundtrack.

Toby sings a duet with co-star and label-mate Lindsey Haun on the Broken Bridges Soundtrack, which is the title track on the album.

Toby Keith was named msn.com's artist of the Month for May.

Toby's video for A Little Too Late will premier on May 11 on CMT

In its second week of sales White Trash with Money was the best selling country album in several major markets including Philadelphia, Boston and Pittsburgh.

Toby Keith was CMT's Artist of the Month for april

"Crash Here Tonight" is the first real intimate ballad since "You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This"

Toby Keith has metioned that he wasn't to crazy about the song "I'm so happy That I Can't Stop Crying"

Toby Keith is one of 5 country stars to sing Hey, Good Lookin' with Jimmy Buffet, the others include: Alan Jackson, Clint Black, George Strait, and Kenny Chesney.

Many people think that Toby's daughter Krystal, outshined him on the song "Mockingbird"

Toby Keith is Country Music's Biggest Star, selling over 20 million albums and charting over 15 number one songs.

"White Trash with Money" is set to be released on April 11, 2006

How Do You Like Me Now?! Toby's first single from dreamworks records was a multi-week no.1 hit, and was the number 1 song of 2000.

The state of Pennsylvania is considered to be Toby's "second home" since its the state he has the most gigs in.

Toby sing a duet with Merle Haggard on his "Honkytonk University" album called "She Ain't Hooked On Me No More"

Toby was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 2005

Toby Keith was named: Oklahoman of The Year in 2004.

"Rock You Baby" was the third single off of Unleashed but was never really credited because it fell short of landing in the top ten and there was no video for it.

Toby wanted "As Good As I Once Was" to be the first single off of Honkytonk University and "Honkytonk U" to be second, but Dreamworks released "Honkytonk U" as the first single instead.

Toby's Video for "As Good As I Once Was" was the # 1 video on GAC for 2005.

"Honkytonk U'" is an auto-biography song about growing up in his Grandmothers club.

Toby Keith's next album "White Trash with Money" is his first album from Show Dogs

His first single released from his new label is "Big Blue Note".

Toby Keith opened up a chain of restaurants called "I Love This Bar & Grill".

"Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" was a controversial song and was criticized by the media for it's lyrical content. However, the military and fans loved it, propelling it to the top of the charts 3 weeks before the album was released.

Toby considers Unleashed to be his best album.

His first single, "Should've Been A Cowboy", was named the most played country song of the 1990s by Billboard Magazine.

Toby's musical trademark is having songs about having good times or are patroitic and told from his right-wing perspective.

Toby graduated from Moore High School in Moore, Oklahoma.

Toby's favorite song is "Look What You've Done to Me" by Boz Scagg.

Toby names Merle Haggard as one of his biggest musical influence.

Toby plays the guitar and the mandolin.

Toby has been married since March 24, 1984 to Tricia.

Toby Keith sings a song with his daughter Krystal on His Greatest Hits 2 album called "Mockingbird"