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" One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them. "
Garth Brooks
Own
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" How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums? "
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" I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me. "
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" Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way. "
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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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" My retiring days are behind me - they're going to have to throw me out now. "
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" I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business. "
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" 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. "
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" You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is. "
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" My father and brothers were in the military. "
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" Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class. "
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" 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. "
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" Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers. "
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" Music keeps you eternally young. It just does. "
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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. "
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" The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums. "
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" I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here. "
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" 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. "
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" 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! "
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" I try to do my best. "
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Try
" 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. "
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Music
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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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Happy
" There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys. "
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" I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright. "
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" 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. "
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" If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also. "
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" I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut. "
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