Garth brooks quotes

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

I could've missed the pain, but I would've missed the dance.

That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

Music keeps you eternally young. It just does. What I love about it now is touring without the guilt. Now it's like nothing is being held back. You get to eat mashed potatoes with both hands instead of one. It's fantastic.

We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we can. I'm not sure other formats are remembering that the lyrics are what it's all about.

A fan's love for an artist is so deep, I know I will go whatever depths it takes to learn about people that I'm in love with.

Our future is not unpredictable, our future is simply the result of choices we have made.

It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

She brings him hope in the way that angels do, taking him to heaven in ways he never knew.

Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.

I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s.

Life's gonna run you over if you don't get goin.

I hear them saying, "You'll never change things, and no matter what you do it's still the same thing." But it's not the world that I am changing. I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.

When we all can worship from our own kind of pew, then we shall be free.

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

What I do is so this world will know that it will not change me.

Life is not tried it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire.

I'm much too young to feel this damn old.

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

It'll never go away until the fear you are running from is finally embraced.

Thank God for unanswered prayers.

I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

Getting older doesn't help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you're listening to a song that you know is a hit, but it just can't be a hit for you, it's gonna be a hit for somebody else. That's tough.

There's times I'd rather kill you than listen to your honesty.

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!

Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.

James Taylor and God are the reasons I play music.

I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

That old star that you been wishin' on is shining mighty bright, but it's the fire inside your heart that's gonna lead you to the light.

The blues will be blue, and the jealousies green, but when love picks its color it demands to be seen.

She's sun and rain, she's fire and ice, a little crazy, but it's nice. And when she gets mad, you best leave her alone, cause she'll rage like a river then she'll beg you to forgive her.

Mistakes don't scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I've really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it's just as important to know what doesn't work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.

Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!

Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.

Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.

Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs; that just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

Life is only therapy.

It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain.

You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.

I'm not sure how we exist, as an artist, without country radio.

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

You see in all my life I've never found what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

I'm sitting in the drive-through and I've got my three girls in the back and this station comes on and it's playing “Jailhouse Rock,” the original version, and my girls are jumping up and down, going nuts. I'm looking around at them and they've heard Dad's music all the time and I don't see that out of them.

Holding you, I held everything.

I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.

I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut.

One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.

Heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just beyond the fear. No, heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just for us to find it here.

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

The cool thing about passion is that no matter how good or bad a day you're having, tomorrow's going to be better because passion finds some way of doubling itself.

It was your song that made me sing It was your song that gave me wings It was your light that shined guiding my heart to find This place where I belong It was your song Dreams can come true With God's great angels like you

I feel my job as an artist is to drive people to country radio. That's my job as a country artist. So these streaming places, especially these on-demand streaming places, where you can just push a button and hear it as many times as you want, like YouTube, any of that stuff, that's taking all the ears away from country radio.

Just keep taking chances and having fun.

Somebody that comes and dumps a brand-new album on me and doesn't play the old stuff, I'm pissed!

I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.

Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.

Passion is something you'd easily die for. It's something you'd be honored to die for. It's something that's stronger than any machine man can create. It actually gives a mortal person wings.

My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.

And now, I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance, I could've missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the Dance.

A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.

I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.

Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away. Til what we put off til tomorrow has now become today.

If you want to know how important Portland is to me, there's no Saturday night gigs here. They weren't available. So our whole thing coming into Portland, which is going to be different from anybody else, any other city, is every night is Saturday night.

If you're gonna leave your mark, you can't follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart.

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

Passion is what convinced armies that had no chance to win - it's believing that something can happen. Reality is what you make it to be. And when you're the only one who can see the way the future is going to be, you can be the tool that bends, rips, shapes and paints the future the way you want it to be. That's true passion!

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

As long as one heart still holds on, then hope is never really gone

I understand that music is a business, but for people who have control of their stuff, like little Taylor and other artists, I think you'll find them standing up for their music every chance they get.

You know a dream is like a river Ever changing as it flows. And a dreamer's just a vessel That must follow where it goes. Trying to learn from what's behind you And never knowing what's in store Makes each day a constant battle Just to stay between the shores.

If she were a president, she'd be Baberham Lincoln.

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

There's a moment that we all come to, in our own time, in our own space, where all that we've done, we can undo, if our heart's in the right place.

It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.

Time is on the side of all things good.

A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.

I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.

But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.

I know there's nothing that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love

The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.

Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.

It ain't what you're driving or the clothes that you wear, material possessions won't matter up there. And someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well these rags that I'm wearin' will be fit for a king.

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

They call them fools, who are unable to resist the slightest chance love might exist.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.

People loving people. That's the enemy of everything that's evil

You were standin' way too close to see it fall apart. And there were things you couldn't hear, 'cause you were listening with your heart.

I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

Dreams can come true with God's great angels like you.

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

No one will ever touch Elvis

I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there.

Learning to live again without you is killing me.

I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.

Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the "old stuff." And if an artist comes in town and dumps his entire new album on me, as a listener in a concert venue, it happens to miss out on the old stuff that I came there for. That doesn't work too well for me as a listener. Most of the time for concerts, it's the old stuff.

How you ever gonna know if you're the best? How you ever gonna know what you believe in, if you don't put it to the test?

I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

Bury the hatchet, but leave the handle sticking out.

Don't let the world decide who you are. You decide who you are.

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

There's two dates in time That they'll carve on your stone And everyone knows what they mean What's more important Is the time that is known In that little dash there in between That little dash there in between

It's midnight Cinderella, but don't worry none. Cause I'm Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party's just begun.