Garth Brooks Quotes

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

When you sit on something trying to preserve it, you die and become sterile.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.

Retail should never ever tell the copyright owner how their stuff is sold.

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

Time is on the side of all things good.

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

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

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?

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

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

If my time on earth were through and she must face the world without me, is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last?

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

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

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.

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.

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.

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