Garth Brooks
Full Name: Troyal Garth Brooks
Birthdate: February 7, 1962
Birthplace: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Occupation: Country Musician
Profile: Best-selling solo albums artist in the United States. Best known for
Ropin' the Wind.
Website: https://www.garthbrooks.com/
Number of Quotes: 192
'Cause I've got friends in low places
Where the whiskey drowns
And the beer chases my blues away.
"Friends in Low Places"
A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.
"The River"
A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.
Interview/Quote
After seven years of marriage
He wanted out.
Now after seven months of freedom,
It's clear that there's no doubt.
She's gonna make it,
And he never will.
"She's Gonna Make It"
Against the grain, I've always been a rebel.
Folks call me a maverick, guess I ain't too diplomatic.
I just never been the kind to go along.
"Against the Grain"
Ain't going down 'til the sun comes up;
Ain't givin' in 'til they get enough.
"Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)"
All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.
All the new stuff that I've been working on for six months was on a phone that I just fried and I can't get the phone to come back up.
Interview/Quote (2015)
And now, I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance.
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!
Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
Interview/Quote
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
As long as one heart still holds on, then hope is never really gone.
Song lyric
Awards are for young people. They just are.
Balls out no doubt this is what it's all about
Beggin' for a place to play.
"The Old Stuff"
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.
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!
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.
Bury the hatchet, but leave the handle sticking out.
Interview/Quote
Can you believe it? We get to be a mentor.
On his role on The Voice (2016)
Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.
Interview/Quote
Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.
Interview/Quote
Do what you gotta do.
They'll call you a hero or a traitor but you'll find out that, sooner or later
Nobody in this world is gonna do it for you.
"Do What You Gotta Do"
Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that
ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em — we call it the old stuff.
Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
Don't let the world decide who you are. You decide who you are.
Interview/Quote
Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.
Interview/Quote
For that river of red could be the death of me.
God, give me strength and keep reminding me
That blood is thicker than water.
Oh, but love is thicker than blood.
"Thicker Than Blood"
Friends in Low Places
Song
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
"Unanswered Prayers"
He asked her twice to come along;
They said good-bye at the break of dawn.
'Cause you can't hold back the wind,
If it's meant to be again.
"That Ol' Wind"
He was up in Wyoming,
And drew a bull no man could ride.
He promised her he'd turn out,
Well it turned out that he lied.
"The Beaches of Cheyenne"
Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
Interview/Quote
Holding you, I held everything.
Interview/Quote
How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums?
I am so both. I really am Let's love one another, but don't forget we're the defender of freedom all around the world, so let's beef up.
On his political views (Billboard interview, 2020)
I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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 could've missed the pain, but I would've had to miss the dance.
"The Dance"
I didn't expect the backlash I got from We Shall Be Free
because it was just common sense.
Billboard interview (2020)
I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.
Interview/Quote
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.
Interview/Quote
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 don't think it's changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth
introduced more rock into country music, then Florida Georgia Line's gonna introduce more dance and more beat-driven stuff into country music. That's just how
it's gonna go. So whatever influences you as a kid, you're gonna put in your music.
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.
I feel my job as an artist is to drive people to country radio.
Interview/Quote
I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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 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.
Interview/Quote
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.
I just love to see people having a good time.
I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.
Interview/Quote
I know there's nothing that I wouldn't do
Go to the ends of the earth for you
To make you feel my love.
"Make You Feel My Love"
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.
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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.
I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
Interview/Quote
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.
I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist
looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, Thank you.
Interview
I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
Interview/Quote
I try to do my best.
I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
I will sail my vessel
'Til the river runs dry.
Like a bird upon the wind,
These waters are my sky.
"The River"
I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
Interview/Quote
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.
Interview
I wrote "The River" practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it
was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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.
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!
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.
I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now,
because if you want to promote an album, think about it — a concept album might be the way to go.
I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
"Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)"
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'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.
I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation — not an artist's creation.
I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
Interview/Quote
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.
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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.
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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.
If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
Interview/Quote
If reincarnation did exist, I found her in the lives before and I'll find her in the next one.
On his wife Trisha Yearwood (2014)
If she were a president, she'd be Baberham Lincoln.
Interview/Quote
If the artists would just keep hammering away — unify, stick together — then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
If tomorrow never comes,
Will she know how much I loved her?
"If Tomorrow Never Comes"
If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.
If you truly love somebody, that's what I'm hoping, as a child of God,
that we're doing.
On the meaning of We Shall Be Free
(Billboard interview, 2020)
If you're gonna leave your mark, you can't follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart.
Interview/Quote
If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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.
In another's eyes I'm afraid that I can't see
This picture perfect portrait that they paint of me.
"In Another's Eyes"
In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.
It ain't what you're driving or the clothes that you wear, material possessions won't matter up there.
"That Summer"
It was amazing because I was a tour guide there. So to actually be a tour guide
there, then to have a star on the Walk of Fame was really surreal and awesome.
Trisha Yearwood on being inducted with Garth Brooks to
Nashville's Music City Walk of Fame (2015)
It was your song that made me sing
It was your song that gave me wings.
"It's Your Song"
It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
It's midnight Cinderella time that you should know,
There's gonna be some changes in the way this story goes.
"It's Midnight Cinderella"
It's not the world that I am changing
What I do is so this world will know that it will not change me.
"The Change"
It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.
"Rodeo"
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.
Just keep taking chances and having fun.
Interview
Life is like therapy — real expensive and no guarantees.
Interview/Quote
Life is not tried, it is merely survived
If you're standing outside the fire.
"Standing Outside the Fire"
Life's gonna run you over if you don't get goin'.
Interview/Quote
Mama was a looker,
Lord, how she shined.
Papa was a good'n,
But the jealous kind.
Papa loved Mama;
Mama loved men.
Mama's in the graveyard;
Papa's in the pen.
"Papa Loved Mama"
Moonlight on canvas, midnight and wine,
Two shadows starting to softly combine.
"The Red Strokes"
Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.
Interview
Music should always be first.
My father and brothers were in the military.
My girls are looking for HANNAH MONTANA tickets. They're like, Dad, don't you know somebody?
On his daughters (2007)
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.
Interview
My retiring days are behind me — they're going to have to throw me out now.
Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, songwriter
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.
Interview
No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.
Interview/Quote
No offense to music — thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or
a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
No one will ever touch Elvis.
Interview/Quote
No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.
Not counting you I've never had a heartache.
Not counting you I never have been blue.
"Not Counting You"
Nothing ventured, nothing gained; sometimes you've got to go against the grain.
"Against The Grain"
Oh, the red strokes,
Passions uncaged;
Thundering moments of tenderness rage.
"The Red Strokes"
On a prayer,
In a song,
I hear your voice,
And it keeps me hanging on.
"When You Come Back to Me Again"
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.
Interview
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.
Interview/Quote
One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.
Interview
Our future is not unpredictable, our future is simply the result of choices we have made.
Interview/Quote
Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.
"Papa Loved Mama"
People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
Interview/Quote
People loving people. That's the enemy of everything that's evil.
Interview/Quote
People said, How could you walk away from music?
But being a dad — there's nothing that can touch that.
She had a need to feel the thunder,
To chase the lightning from the sky.
"That Summer"
She reaches for the pistol kept in the dresser drawer
Tells the lady in the mirror he won't do this again.
"The Thunder Rolls"
She's anything but typical;
She's so unpredictable.
"She's Every Woman"
She's sun and rain, she's fire and ice, a little crazy, but it's nice.
Song lyric
Some of God's
greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
"Unanswered Prayers"
Somewhere other than the night
She needs to hear I love you.
"Somewhere Other Than the Night"
Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
Interview/Quote
Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.
Interview/Quote
Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.
Interview/Quote
Thank God for unanswered prayers.
Interview/Quote
Thank God I'm
with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be
That line was about everything from interracial marriage and marriages crossing religions to same-sex marriages.
"We Shall Be Free" (Billboard interview, 2020)
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.
Interview/Quote
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.
Interview/Quote
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.
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.
Interview/Quote
The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.
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.
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
Interview/Quote
The guys have told me not to quit my day job.
The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.
The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.
Interview/Quote
The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
Interview
The thunder rolls,
And the lightnin' strikes.
Another love grows cold
On a sleepless night.
"The Thunder Rolls"
The truth is this: You never care about it. I'm not running for president, so I don't care what people as a whole think of me as an artist.
Billboard interview (2020)
There's a moment when you know... If reincarnation did exist, I found her in the lives before and I'll find her in the next one.
On Trisha Yearwood (2014)
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.
Interview/Quote
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
Interview
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.
Interview
There's this love that is burning deep in my soul
Constantly yearning to get out of control.
"Standing Outside the Fire"
There's two dates in time that they'll carve on your stone and everyone knows what they
mean and what they've shown. But the most important date is between the first and the last.
This is where I make my stand, 'cause I can't stand it anymore.
"Man Against Machine"
This song is telling us, We've all got our differences, but instead of letting it
separate it, let's revel in those differences and use them to our advantage as one.
"We Shall Be Free" (People interview)
This was somebody I always enjoyed being around and we had a lot more in common than I ever dreamed we did.
On Trisha Yearwood (2013)
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!
Interview/Quote
Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away. 'Til what we put off 'til tomorrow has now become today.
Interview/Quote
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
We'll get there. It might not be in our lifetime. It might not be in my children or my grandchildren's lifetime, but we'll get there.
On world peace (Facebook Live, 2020)
We're best friends. We just have a great time together. We laugh a lot.
Trisha Yearwood on her marriage to Garth Brooks (2011)
We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line
musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.
What he loves might kill him, but he's got no choice
He's a different breed with a voice down deep inside
That's screamin' he was born to ride.
"The Fever"
What I love about "Midnight Train" is that it's a song about a journey, but the music
actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
What you do on tour is you build this You and me against the world
thing.
Interview
Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
When the last child cries for a crust of bread;
When the last man dies for just words that he said;
When there's shelter over the poorest head,
We shall be free.
"We Shall Be Free"
When we all can worship from our own kind of pew, then we shall be free.
"We Shall Be Free"
When we're free to love anyone we choose, when this world's big enough for all different views
When we all can worship from our own kind of pew, then we shall be free.
"We Shall Be Free"
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.
Interview/Quote
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.
Interview
With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.
You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
Interview
You can sit down and talk to those people forever, because you just want to tell them what they're kind of in for and all the wonderful things about it.
On mentoring on The Voice (2016)
You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
You know a dream is like a river,
Ever changin' as it flows.
"The River"
You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
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.
You see in all my life I've never found what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn
down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
Shameless
You're looking at the luckiest, most blessed guy on the planet. I'm madly in love with her and I can't stand to spend a day without her.
On Trisha Yearwood (2014)
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.
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