Tim McGraw Quotes (69 Quotes)


    To All My Fans, I am sorry we can't see you because of the storm - most importantly everyone stay safe as I know your state has been through so much over the last few years with the weather,

    I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn't.

    I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.

    You know what I can say Vote. That's the best answer I can give.

    No, there will come a time where I'm not gonna do this anymore. I mean, there will come a time, definitely, where I'll turn into Elvis - I'm gonna be fat and fishin', I guarantee you.


    You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.

    Only two lines change in that opening each week. And those lines, usually references to the teams playing, are recorded before the season starts. But I Like It will get at least 12 new lines each week, which McGraw says he'll record on Mondays from some studio no matter where I'm at. ... God, I sure hope somebody else writes them.

    Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

    I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.


    I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

    If you don't feel comfortable with the Red Cross, anything that you feel comfortable sending money to -- that you know is going to get to the hurricane victims -- send money. Because that's what you can do to help. And a lot of prayers. Lots of prayers.

    You're looking good Canada, ... You're sounding good too

    I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.

    Some of the supposedly smartest people in this country can't figure it out, so I don't know what to tell you, either.

    They were anti-racist. 'An eye for an eye leaves us blind,' 'Say no to hate' over a dove and peace symbol.

    There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.

    As a member of the American Red Cross National Celebrity Cabinet and native of Louisiana, I am writing to seek your support,

    The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

    And we carry onWhen our lives come undoneWe carry onCause there's promise in the morning sunWe carry onAs the dark surrenders to the dawnWe were born to overcomeWe carry onBeyond the picket fences and the oil wellsThe happy endings and the fairy talesIs the reality of shattered lives and broken dreamsWe carry on

    We really want to make sure that people feel like they got their money's worth out of the show they see.

    I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.

    I worked so hard for that first kissAnd a heart dont forget something like thatLike an old photographTime can make a feeling fadeBut the memory of a first loveNever fades away.

    For me, there's a tremendous challenge of singing with Faith, who, in my opinion is one of the best singers in the world. She doesn't get enough credit for being as good as she is. She's so beautiful that people look past her singing. But for a journeyman like me to keep up with her is a real tough sprint.

    I'm coming up on 40 next year, and after making so many records and doing music for so long, I'm looking for a change and a different perspective. And every now and then, I think I have something I want to say.

    Maybe in 10 or 15 years when the music has died down.

    I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.

    My next thirty years Im gonna settle all the scores,Cry a little less, laugh a little more.Find a world of happiness without the hate and fear,Figure out just what Im doing here.

    I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids.

    The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say.

    We're very blessed, just very fortunate to have the things we have.

    We've been married, this'll be our 10th year, so I guess we've traveled on tour for 10 years. She's always been out with me -- and the kids -- when I've been working. It's just part of the program to us.

    That number can be up to 60 percent of the population, so that's a big gap between those who can and those who need it.

    Of course the song is special to me, but I think it is special to a lot of people.

    I'm more of a '70s rock 'n' roll kind of a guy, she's more of an RB kind of girl.

    I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.

    To have that number in that contracted time frame is unusual for us,

    I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of.

    She said I bet you dont remember meAnd I said only every other memory.

    I know the citizens that weren't affected by this are gonna stand up and do good things for people.

    I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.

    We knew we could make a great record because we had the confidence of the last album. We were then able to go further, take it to another level.

    I went sky divin', I went rocky mountain climbin', I went 2.7 seconds on a bull name Fumanchu.And I loved deeper, And I spoke sweeter, And I gave forgiveness I've been denying, And he said someday I hope you get the chance,To live like you were dyin'.

    They say drinking will kill youThe same thing for rolling smokesBut that's two of the three things that I like mostYou can't tell me nothin'I know what the good book preachesBut I know how I amI just hope somebody up there understandsYou can't tell me nothin'

    I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.

    I encouraged the building and authorities to make the right decision for everyone there and I trust the right call was made. I'm looking forward to coming back in September.

    There's no reason why someone can't go down there -- who's supposed to be the leader of the free world -- and say, 'I'm giving you a job to do and I'm not leaving here until it's done. And you're held accountable.

    I've been around the music business for a long time now, and I've had a lot of chances to do movies. But I didn't really want to do any until I found stuff that started to hit me in the right place.

    The initial stages of our investigation indicate there isn't a public-safety concern. At this point, we're just doing everything we can to be prudent.

    I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.


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