Top 191 Quotes & Sayings by Garth Brooks

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American singer Garth Brooks.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Garth Brooks

Troyal Garth Brooks is an American country music singer and songwriter. His integration of pop and rock elements into the country genre has earned him popularity, particularly in the United States with success on the country music single and album charts, multi-platinum recordings and record-breaking live performances, while also crossing over into the mainstream pop arena.

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.
Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
I just love to see people having a good time. — © Garth Brooks
I just love to see people having a good time.
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.
You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
Thank God I'm with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be.
I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
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.' — © Garth Brooks
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.'
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.
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.
No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.
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.
I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
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.
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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!
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.
I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.
When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
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 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.
Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.
What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing. — © Garth Brooks
What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.
I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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 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.
I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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.
Just keep taking chances and having fun.
Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.
You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.
The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful. — © Garth Brooks
The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.
It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.
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 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.
I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
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!
I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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.
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