Quotes from Garth Brooks

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

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

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

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.

If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.

I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.

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

Thank God I'm with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be.

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

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

That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.

When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.

You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.

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.

Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you're talking to the Man upstairs that just because He doesn't answer doesn't mean He doesn't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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