You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
Garth Brooks
Just keep taking chances and having fun.
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
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.
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.
I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
I just love to see people having a good time.
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 want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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.
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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.
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.
If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
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.
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!
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.
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'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.
All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.
If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.
I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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.
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.
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.
My retiring days are behind me - they're going to have to throw me out now.
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.
Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.
No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.
Music should always be first.
I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.
In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.
If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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.
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.
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!
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.
