158 Quotes by Tim McGraw

Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay ’em a visit so I could give ’em a good punch in the nose.

I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that you have to have fun. I’ve been guilty in my career about that at times. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought I didn’t want anybody else to have a hit with it!

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.

Some say it’s too country, some say it’s too rock n’ roll. But it’s just good music if you can feel it in your soul.

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.

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 think country music is about honesty. Any art has to have honesty to start with, as the core of it. I mean, they’re just going to manipulate you in one way or the other, but there has to honesty at the core of it.

There’s a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on me, that would say it all.

I need you like a needle needs a vein.