Garth Brooks

Singer

1962-02-07

Garth Brooks is an American country singer-songwriter. He is one of the best-selling solo artists in history and a major figure in modern country music.

Quotes by Garth Brooks

The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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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.
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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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.
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I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.
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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.
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I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
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Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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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.
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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.
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As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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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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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.
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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 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.
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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.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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