Top 112 Quotes & Sayings by Trisha Yearwood
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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.
I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.
Boiled peanuts are a Southern thing.
And one of the reasons that I wrote the cook books was so that I could be at home more than being on the road.
My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.
I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.
For me, cooking is very connected to my family and friends.
Potato salad is very personal: everyone makes theirs differently.
I'm not the singing cookbook lady.
I really like Miranda Lambert. She has a great voice.
Get your education, and if you see small opportunities, take them. Each one could be a stepping stone to something bigger.
If you believe in astrology, I'm a Virgo, so I'm very controlling; I'm very neat, and I'm very organized.
I hope I never have to pick between all these things I get to do.
Music is so intimate and so personal that when you can find somebody that feels the same way about it that you do, it's magic. It can be. It really can be.
I wrote a book with my mom and my sister for fun. I had no idea it would be a 'New York Times' bestseller.
When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.
I'm like everybody: I gain the Christmas 10 or so, and then I try to exercise more and dial it back.
The best thing that I bring in my live show is that it's not scripted. It's more of a conversation with my audience. And that's what people like about the show - it's very real. There are mistakes and laughter.
When people say, 'You seem so grounded; you seem so normal,' I think it's the way I was raised and the way my sister and I were brought up by our parents.
I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.
Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.
I don't think you can name one diet I haven't done.
Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.
I have a lot of friends who, especially in Tennessee, were looking forward to getting married who wanted to wait until it was legal in the state that they live in to get married.
Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.
I'm not saying I don't enjoy the days that I'm not eating chocolate cake. But I do particularly like those days when I am eating chocolate cake.
Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.
When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.
I was an A student and I liked creative writing.
If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll find a way to do it, no matter what. If you're doing this because you're thinking, 'Hey, this will be really cool. I'll be famous. I'll be on YouTube,' then you'll probably quit, because it's not easy to do for the long haul.
I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.
You start out playing in kitchens, and you end up playing in kitchens.
It's always a balance, and sometimes I'm on the good side of that scale, and sometimes I'm on the bad side.
People who truly love to sing have to do it all the time.
I don't interest myself that much.
I love cookbooks, and I have a ton. I have shelves of cookbooks.
I wanted to be Cher for a long time, but not for the singing. I just thought she was so cool. I wanted her long hair, and I wanted to weigh five pounds.
I don't sign every check anymore, but I have my checks, my balances. I like the people I work with very much, but I check on them.
As long as I can sing and hit the notes, I want to do that.
It's not about giving back if you're successful or a celebrity or how much money you have: it's about your responsibility as an adult to help others.
I never want to record something that I'm not proud of just because I think it might be a big hit. There's no positive about that because if you record a song you hate and it's a big hit, then you're singing a song every night that you hate. And if you record a song that you hate and it isn't a hit, then you sold out for no reason.
I get up in the morning. I usually do a radio interview early in the morning. I usually do a book signing, because I'm also a cookbook author, so I'm at some store, at a Walmart or a Williams Sonoma, for three hours, standing up, signing autographs, and taking pictures for three hours.
You have to focus hard on recording songs that you believe in.
I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.
When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.
I'd been doing circuit training and Pilates for years, but I was not consistent with food. I'm not a disciplined person. I was indulging all the time.
It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.
My mom and sister and I all cook.
Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say 'passion,' but I really was obsessed; I really didn't want to do anything else.
I want to sing because I want to sing.
Education was a given, only because of the way I was raised. Truth be told, I thought, at 15 years old, I should go and get a record deal and drop out of school, and my parents would have had none of that. I'm grateful now that my parents were pushing me in that way, because I wasn't mature enough on so many levels to do that.
I get satisfaction out of making a meal for people that I love and having them enjoy it. But there's not really anything in my life that I do that's just for me that feeds my soul like music does.
We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.
I like a gooey cookie.
I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'
What's meant to be will always find a way.
Before the show, there's about two or two and a half hours of meet and greets with radio stations, promoters, people who I need to see and thank and talk to to make sure they remember me. And then, I get - out of all that day of talking and smiling and shaking hands and getting photos, I get to sing for two hours.
Garth Fundis is a song guy. He is in it for the right reasons; he's about the music. He doesn't ever try to talk you into recording something that you shouldn't. He gets it.
Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.
I never dreamed that they would ask me to do a TV show. I'm the most surprised person of all.
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