Trisha Yearwood Quotes

I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.

I would rather fall flat on my face than try to just make a quick dollar by making music that fits into the radio format right now. It does nothing for me.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all.

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

I love Michael Bay movies. I don't think I'd be selling out if I did one. I happen to like his movies. I think selling out is doing something you don't believe in, and you're doing it for a selfish purpose.

It's appealing to me to get to be in a commercial film without feeling like I sold out.

I'm not going to release something just because they think it's the next hit. It's not what everyone wants to hear, but that's the way it is.

I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.

I don't want to sign four films at a time, as acting is an art, and art cannot be done without honesty.

It's not always about huge giant commercial success. It's about art.

I have refused money sometimes for a film. I have refused films when I felt that it was not for me. When it was just a job or just about making money, I said no. I wanted to make every film count, and when you are true to yourself, this gives you a certain integrity and a certain reputation.

It doesn't matter even if I am slow or fast as long as my films are honest and carries my integrity.

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

I don't have this feeling like, 'Oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here.' I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.

Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.