Garth Brooks Quotes

I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.

I don't ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, 'It sounds good!' It's got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

Where music leads, I follow.

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.

Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.

I really want to explore every genre that I can.

Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.

I was driving home and thinking about what rock and roll should be about. 'Adventure and Trouble!' I thought. I sang the song first and then added the chords later.

Pushing yourself and digging into something new, that's what being a musician is all about.

I lived in a small village outside the city and grew up in a large family, so my world was very much centred around that. I used to sing in the local church, and I would also occasionally sing in the local pubs for which I used to get a few bob. That, for me, was the start of my interest in music, which has obviously expanded since then.

I don't want people to think that I think I'm this great drummer because, to me, I'm just a kid playing drums, and I love music.

My form of rebellion was starting to play guitar. I was 13. The first song I played was 'Lovesick Blues' by Hank Williams.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.

The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.

I hope our fans are able to experience that they are also on an odyssey to the 'Metal Galaxy' with us. We've incorporated different types of music into this album and we hope that fans are able to feel our determination to a new departure.

I'll only pick up my guitar if something is knocking on the door. Once the melodies have sort of been bothering me for a time, then I pick up my guitar and try to find them. But only if they want to be found.

I didn't take music seriously in the beginning. It just kind of a hobby to me. It was something that I love doing for fun.

Deeper' feels like we did when we made the first few albums. It's got that excitement. It felt like a voyage of discovery.

All I ever wanted to do, personally, was bring something new to what I loved: the thing that I loved the most, the music that I loved the most.