Garth Brooks Quotes
I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.
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I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.
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I write music every day.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
