Tim McGraw Quotes

• Because being with you makes perfect sense.

  Tim McGraw

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• You know, we’re very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There’s things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can.

  Tim McGraw

• 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.

  Tim McGraw

• You don’t try to get influenced by everything that’s going on with all the other music around you. You don’t listen to the radio – I mean, I don’t. When I get ready to do an album, I don’t listen to anybody else; I don’t wanna be influenced.

  Tim McGraw

• When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

  Tim McGraw

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

  Tim McGraw

• We’re parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

  Tim McGraw

• There’s rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.

  Tim McGraw

• 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.

  Tim McGraw

• 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.

  Tim McGraw

• 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.

  Tim McGraw

• It’s innate in me to be a Democrat – a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There’s not a lot of those anymore. I’m not saying I’m right or wrong. That’s just the way I feel.

  Tim McGraw

• 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.

  Tim McGraw

• 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.

  Tim McGraw

• 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.

  Tim McGraw

• 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.

  Tim McGraw

• 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.

  Tim McGraw

• 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.

  Tim McGraw

• I mean, there’s a little bit that gets out, but for the most part, the thing that makes us work, and makes our family successful, and our life successful, is when we walk home and we walk into our doors of our house, all that other stuff is left outside. It’s not a factor.

  Tim McGraw

• I mean, I grew up riding. I can’t ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.

  Tim McGraw

Tim McGraw (36)

Birth:	1st May, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Lyricist, Musician, Singer

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