Garth Brooks Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Life is only therapy.

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

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.

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!

Thank God for unanswered prayers.

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

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

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.

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

Learning to live again without you is killing me.

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

When the skies and the oceans are clean again. Then we shall be free.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

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.

Holding you, I held everything.

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

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

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

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

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!

James Taylor and God are the reasons I play music.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.