Latest Tim McGraw Quotes from Interviews

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• I grew up in Louisiana, and I grew up with a dysfunctional family with some very serious abuse from my stepfather, who could be a very beautiful person on one hand and be terrible on the other, so it leaves your soul troubled as a child.

  Tim McGraw

  Beautiful, Children, Hands

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

• As an actor, you can't say, "I'm going to try to be cool at all cost when I do this," because that's the opposite of what you need to do as an actor.

  Tim McGraw

  Opposites, Trying, Needs

• When you get in the middle of a career and you're successful, people come and offer you things. My biggest fear was that if you try to do something else and you're trying to build your music career, and then you say, "I'm going to go do a movie," and you're terrible, you can really hurt your music career because as a musician, the goal is to be cool. You're playing the guitar and you're in front of all these people and your vibe is to be as cool as you can possibly be.

  Tim McGraw

  Hurt, Successful, Guitar

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

• When I die and I'm lucky enough or fortunate enough and brave enough throughout my life to get into Heaven and I see Octavia Spencer sitting there then all is good.

  Tim McGraw

  Brave, Heaven, Lucky

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

• I know if I told you what God looked like and felt like then I'd be telling you a story. I just think we don't know. God manifests himself, herself or itself in a way that we need it, in a way that we can grab a hold of and a way that we can put our arms around.

  Tim McGraw

  Thinking, Needs, Stories

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

• I try to give as much blanket forgiveness as much as possible in my life because that's the only way you can get past things and move forward. But, conversely, I'd like to be forgiven. In many ways, that's the bigger leap, the bigger transformation and the bigger step forward.

  Tim McGraw

  Moving, Past, Giving

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

• I think there are more people waiting to forgive me than I need to forgive them.

  Tim McGraw

  Thinking, People, Forgive Me

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

• Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're singing a song.

  Tim McGraw

  Song, Artist, Singing

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

• Sometimes I think as an artist you tend to go toward the heartbreak and the sadness because those are the deepest and heaviest emotions you can pull out as an entertainer and as a singer.

  Tim McGraw

  Heart, Sadness, Artist

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

• Most of the time I ask, "Why have I forsaken God?" I look at myself and ask that question when probably the better question is to say, "Where are you God, and I'll let you in." Instead of thinking that you've abandoned God, push yourself in the other direction like, "God, how can I get closer?"

  Tim McGraw

  Thinking, Looks, Push Yourself

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

• What in your life allows you to give up to other people, and allows you to forgive others and accept forgiveness.

  Tim McGraw

  Giving Up, People, Forgiving

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

• I don't think that the universal themes of love, compassion, and forgiveness (are present). (You're) searching constantly for the next step, the next level and consciousness in your spirituality, who you are as a human being and what you contribute to society or what God means to you is always a course everyone goes on.

  Tim McGraw

  Mean, Thinking, Compassion

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

• Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

  Tim McGraw

  Book, Looks, Want

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

• I try not to worry about other people's music. But if there's one thing that I hear these days, it's that people try and put [music] down so tight that they take all the color out of it.

  Tim McGraw

  Color, People, Worry

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• 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.

  Tim McGraw

  Giving, Wife, Ems

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

  Tim McGraw

  People, Trying, Want

  Source: edition.cnn.com

• I think country music is really one of the biggest genres of music out there and one the most successful genres.

  Tim McGraw

  Country, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• 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.

  Tim McGraw

  Country, Art, Honesty

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I don't even trust myself in my career much less giving somebody else advice.

  Tim McGraw

  Careers, Giving, Advice

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• Love can sort of rebound and regrow and reinvent itself around a lot of things, but when somebody can't forgive themself for something, I think love sort of withers in that situation.

  Tim McGraw

  Thinking, Forgiving, Rebound

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca