Garth Brooks Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

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

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. — Garth Brooks

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

Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the skies. — Garth Brooks

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

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. — Garth Brooks

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

You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire. — Garth Brooks

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

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also. — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free. — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut. — Garth Brooks

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

What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom. — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

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

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. — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

Bury the hatchet, but leave the handle sticking out. — Garth Brooks

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

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

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. — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

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

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

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

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

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. — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses. — Garth Brooks

The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game. — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

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

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

Choose to chance the rapids; dare to dance the tide — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

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

I try to do my best. — Garth Brooks

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! — Garth Brooks

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

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

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! — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

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? — Garth Brooks

Thank God for unanswered prayers. — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

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

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. — Garth Brooks

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

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. — Garth Brooks

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

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 — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

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

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. — Garth Brooks

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? — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it. — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

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

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. — Garth Brooks

Life is only therapy. — Garth Brooks

Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees. — Garth Brooks

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith. — Garth Brooks

Just keep taking chances and having fun. — Garth Brooks

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! — Garth Brooks

I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part. — Garth Brooks

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

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

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

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

Learning to live again without you is killing me. — Garth Brooks

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

No one will ever touch Elvis — Garth Brooks

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

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

Time is on the side of all things good. — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

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

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. — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

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

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. — Garth Brooks

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

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. — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

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! — Garth Brooks

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. — Garth Brooks

I can't go with you and stay where I am. — Garth Brooks

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

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

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. — Garth Brooks