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. – Garth Brooks
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
People said, ‘How could you walk away from music?’ But being a dad – there’s nothing that can touch that. – Garth Brooks
Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I’m not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else’s job. I just can’t think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer! – Garth Brooks
The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end. – Garth Brooks
I don’t know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that’s new, and hopefully will be fun, and there’s plenty of stuff out there to cut. – Garth Brooks
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. – Garth Brooks
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! – Garth Brooks
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
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. – Garth Brooks
The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you’re responsible for snacks after the game. – Garth Brooks
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. – Garth Brooks
That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice. – Garth Brooks
The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful. – Garth Brooks
How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums? – Garth Brooks
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. – Garth Brooks
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. – Garth Brooks
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
