Garth Brooks Music Quotes

#1. 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.

Garth Brooks

#2. I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

Garth Brooks

#3. I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.

Christopher Buckley

#4. 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.

Garth Brooks

#5. My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most ... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.

Garth Brooks

#6. and you goddamn well know it. I'm damn sure it was the right call; she's not getting dragged into this mess. No - no, it's done. I'm not interested in reevaluating the decision. I made my play, we're running with it.

J. Kenner

#7. Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well.

Christian McBride

#8. I have a lot of musician friends. I worked in radio as a music director, and I know everybody hears about the George Straits and the Garth Brooks and the Kenny Chesneys and all that, but for every major star, there are thousands who didn't quite make it.

Robert David Hall

#9. What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.

Susanna Clarke

#10. Like Garth Brooks said about it, you need to live where you could honestly choose, if you had to, on whether to give up one yesterday for one more tomorrow, you have to be able to say no to that.

John Schmidt

#11. The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

Maureen Howard

#12. True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

Garth Brooks

#13. As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

Garth Brooks

#14. I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it's rock n' roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song, and if it's a smash, then I'll love the different wordplay and different melodies. That's what I'm a fan of - great music.

Nayvadius Cash

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

Garth Brooks

#16. James Taylor and God are the reasons I play music.

Garth Brooks

#17. A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

David Stockman

#18. If there are two straight sides to every story, they'll always be one lopsided truth.

Benny Bellamacina

#19. You're saying she doesn't do her work? So take care of your business! Fail her like a normal kid. The failure will be between me and my daughter, then. You won't like it if her failure is between me and you.

Esme Raji Codell

#20. The courage to say no, the courage to say yes. Decisions do determine Destiny.

Thomas S. Monson

#21. Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.

Jake Owen

#22. The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.

John M. Tobin Jr.

#23. I understand that music is a business, but for people who have control of their stuff, like little Taylor and other artists, I think you'll find them standing up for their music every chance they get.

Garth Brooks

#24. Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

Amartya Sen

#25. We [with Nimai Larson] listened to hardly any music except Hare Krishna music growing up and the occasional Garth Brooks that our babysitter would play for us. From a very early age, we looked at music as mantra based, very cyclical, and having no linear time.

Taraka Larson

#26. 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.

Garth Brooks