Explore Quotes by Garth Brooks

I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are a little less cowboy. But you got to look at yourself in the mirror and ask, whose flag you are under? For Garth Brooks, I'm steel, fiddles, red, white and blue.

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.

I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.

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

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

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.

My father and brothers were in the military.

It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It's just so sweet.

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

Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.

I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.

What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.

Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.

Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.

You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.

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

Once you've figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you.

The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.

Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.

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