Garth Brooks Quotes

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know?

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

It's amazing, seeing people of all different ages singing lyrics to songs we wrote when we were so young and thought we knew everything.

You know you're getting older when the record executives start getting younger.

I appreciate when people listen to the sad songs, because it's almost like telling someone your problems and having them listen with a compassionate ear.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

When someone is working hard on something, that always connects with people, no matter what the differences in generations are.

To me, age is not that important.

Probably the only thing that I really don't like about being an old guy is so many of the people who understand what we know are gone.

I am a songwriter and producer, and though you have to be personal in everything you do, you always having to look at things from another's perspective.

The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.

I was watching the Superbowl with my 92 year old grandfather. The team scored a touchdown. They showed the instant replay. He thought they scored another one. I was gonna tell him, but I figured the game HE was watching was better.

Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs. I wonder how they feel tonight.

I got a new song called "The Plug" and the hook says "I'm the plug/I'm connected to everything you love.

Maybe you just get so attached to the music of your youth that you think it's better than what's coming out now.

I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

You know, when you think about it, that’s kind of a weird thing. I mean it’s meant to be sympathetic, right? But it’s kind of not. Like you’re telling the person there’s nothing unique about what they’re saying I considered this as a couple of kids on Rollerblades whizzed past, hockey sticks over their shoulders. “Yeah,” I said, finally, “but you could also look at it the other way. Like no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.