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" 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. "

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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. "

Garth Brooks

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" 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. "

" Music keeps you eternally young. It just does. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks. "

" You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy. "

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

Garth Brooks

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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.' "

" I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut. "

" 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. "

" The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated. "

" I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it. "

" 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. "

" Thank God I'm with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be. "

" I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future. "

" 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 feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music. "

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

Garth Brooks

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham. "