Garth Brooks Quotes
When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that I didn't enjoy anything as much as I enjoyed playing music. I felt that I had no choice: that I had to become a musician.
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All music is important if it comes from the heart.
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You can't play music and be mad at anybody. It'll show in your heart!
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I wasn't really dead.
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When girls can be honest with each other, they can make mistakes on their own terms and discover through experience - and not through knee-jerk adult intervention - what a healthy friendship should look like.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
