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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

Garth Brooks

My Life

Love

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My retiring days are behind me - they're going to have to throw me out now. "

Garth Brooks

Now

Days

" 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. "

Garth Brooks

Politics

Welcome

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

" It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment! "

" When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw. "

" Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way. "

Garth Brooks

Way

Time

" Just keep taking chances and having fun. "

" 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. "

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

Garth Brooks

Music

Movie

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Garth Brooks

You

Enjoy

" People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something. "

" My father and brothers were in the military. "

" If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also. "

" Music should always be first. "

" One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them. "

" No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different. "

" I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

Garth Brooks

Year

Team

" 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. "

" Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class. "