Explore Quotes by Garth Brooks

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.

People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

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

All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.

The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.

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 was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.

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.

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.

The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.

Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.

I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.

I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.

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

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

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.

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

In advertising, you have a small window to say the most you can. That's what songwriting is. The difference is, you get to put the leaves on the trees and colour 'em in.

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

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.