Garth Brooks Quotes

We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we can. I'm not sure other formats are remembering that the lyrics are what it's all about.

If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.

No one will ever touch Elvis

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

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

His eyes are cold and restless
His wounds have almost healed
And she'd give half of Texas
Just to change the way he feels
She knows his love's in Tulsa
And she knows he's gonna go
Well it ain't no woman flesh and blood
It's that damned old rodeo


Well it's bulls and blood
It's dust and mud
It's the roar of a Sunday crowd
It's the white in his knuckles
The gold in the buckle
He'll win the next go 'round
It's boots and chaps
It's cowboy hats
It's spurs and latigo
It's the ropes and the reins
And the joy and the pain
And they call the thing rodeo


She does her best to hold him
When his love comes to call
But his need for it controls him
And her back's against the wall
And it's So long girl I'll see you
When it's time for him to go
You know the woman wants her cowboy
Like he wants his rodeo

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

Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

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

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.

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

There's a moment that we all come to, in our own time, in our own space, where all that we've done, we can undo, if our heart's in the right place.

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.

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

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.

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.

You know a dream is like a river
Ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer's just a vessel
That must follow where it goes.
Trying to learn from what's behind you
And never knowing what's in store
Makes each day a constant battle
Just to stay between the shores.

Life is not tried it is merely survived when you're standing outside the fire

You are not wealthy until you have something that money cannot buy.

Time is on the side of all things good.

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.

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

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

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.

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

That old star that you been wishin' on is shining mighty bright, but it's the fire inside your heart that's gonna lead you to the light.

Don't let the world decide who you are. You decide who you are.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Life is only therapy.

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

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?

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

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

I hear them saying, "You'll never change things. And no matter what you do it's still the same thing."
But it's not the world that I am changing. I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.

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.

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.

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

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

I'm much too young to feel this damn old.

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.

The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.

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.

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.

Sometimes I thank God ... for cheeseburgers.

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!

Mistakes don't scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I've really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it's just as important to know what doesn't work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.

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.

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.

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

This heart still believes that love and mercy still exist.

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

Bury the hatchet, but leave the handle sticking out.

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 can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

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.

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

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

Learning to live again without you is killing me.

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.

It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

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

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

Choose to chance the rapids; dare to dance the tide

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.

The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.

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

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

There's times I'd rather kill you than listen to your honesty.

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

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.

Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.

My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most ... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.

There's two dates in time
That they'll carve on your stone
And everyone knows what they mean
What's more important
Is the time that is known
In that little dash there in between
That little dash there in between

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?

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

Just keep taking chances and having fun.

The dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows and the dreamer just a vessel that must follow where it goes. We must lean from what's behind us never knowing what's in store keeps each day a contant battle just to stay between the shore

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

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

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

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!

I know there's nothing that I wouldn't do
Go to the ends of the earth for you
To make you feel my love

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

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

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

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 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.