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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Garth Brooks

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" All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life. "

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

Garth Brooks

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" I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home. "

" You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history. "

" The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that. "

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

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

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

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

" If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people. "

Garth Brooks

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

" 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 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. "

" I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong! "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Awards are for young people. They just are. "