Trisha Yearwood Quotes

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Trisha Yearwood

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 19, 1964

My mom and sister and I all cook.

Trisha Yearwood

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.

Trisha Yearwood

I really like Miranda Lambert. She has a great voice.

Trisha Yearwood

I'm not the singing cookbook lady.

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I wrote a book with my mom and my sister for fun. I had no idea it would be a 'New York Times' bestseller.

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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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As long as I can sing and hit the notes, I want to do that.

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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.

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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.

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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.'

Trisha Yearwood

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.

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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.

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You have to focus hard on recording songs that you believe in.

Trisha Yearwood

I love cookbooks, and I have a ton. I have shelves of cookbooks.

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Boiled peanuts are a Southern thing.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Trisha Yearwood

I don't think you can name one diet I haven't done.

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