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

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" Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that. "

" 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. "

" I am the last guy that wants to quit making music. "

" Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers. "

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

" 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. "

" How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums? "

" You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is. "

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

" 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. "

" The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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