Words matter. These are the best Garth Brooks Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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!
Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.
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 great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don’t think it’s dead. I just think we’ve got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
I don’t think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It’s the music that makes everything work or not.
I wouldn’t trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn’t trade that.
Any time I’m in a moving thing, like an airplane, I’m usually asleep before we even get on our way.
I just love to see people having a good time.
Happiness isn’t getting what you want, it’s wanting what you got.
There’s always hunger to create because I believe that’s what I do. I believe that’s what I’m supposed to be doing.
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.
The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.
I’m much too young to feel this damn old.
We’re just a real dirty band. We’re raw, and we’re rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.
The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.
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.
I don’t care if people remember Garth Brooks.
People aren’t always themselves. They’re always holding back something.
In advertising, you have a small window to say the most you can. That’s what songwriting is. The difference is, you get to put the leaves on the trees and colour ’em in.
I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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.
If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.
The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you’re responsible for snacks after the game.
I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
Don’t change a thing. That’s one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
I wouldn’t mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you’re in the moment. Every situation is so different.
Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.
My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.
All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It’s your career. It’s your life.
You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy.
Be with someone who is kind. I think that’s it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It’s a thing that you can’t stop doing.
My father and brothers were in the military.
You know me, I’ve got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that’s unbelievably talented… then to hear him sing those lyrics of ‘What I’m Thankful For,’ which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what’s right. And what’s right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.
I’m one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
You can’t succeed if you don’t know what losing is.
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.
I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are a little less cowboy. But you got to look at yourself in the mirror and ask, whose flag you are under? For Garth Brooks, I’m steel, fiddles, red, white and blue.
I’m very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.
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.
People said, ‘How could you walk away from music?’ But being a dad – there’s nothing that can touch that.
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
That’s what you want to do as an older artist – you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
Once you’ve figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you.
I wrote ‘The River’ practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that’s who inspired you to write them.
I’ve been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
I believe in the ‘Wal-Mart’ school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
I go home, and I’m a blob. I just lay there and don’t do anything – lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It’s fantastic. It’s really good. That’s kind of our life at home.
I try to do my best.
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
Whatever I do, I hope it’s quality, I hope it’s something that’s class.
It’s the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It’s just so sweet.
Country music is what is sincere; that’s the main thing.
I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that’s when I get to say, ‘Thank you.’
When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don’t even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
If I have any talent at all it’s from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
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.
Here’s my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
I don’t think it’s changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more rock into country music, then Florida Georgia Line’s gonna introduce more dance and more beat-driven stuff into country music. That’s just how it’s gonna go. So whatever influences you as a kid, you’re gonna put in your music.
If you’re true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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.
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.
What you do on tour is you build this ‘You and me against the world’ thing.
I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.