Quotes from Garth Brooks

Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.

One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.

How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.

I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.

Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.

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

I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

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

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.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

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

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

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

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.