Eric Church Quotes

I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard.

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.

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.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.

My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

After a while, you want to sell a lot of records, win awards and touch as many people as you can, but you have to secure the foundation with your family. I'm a family man, but I'm a businessman, too.

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there's a real lack of intimacy. You don't really connect with the artist as much anymore, and you don't really understand where they are. I'm basically doing music that illustrates who I am and where I am in my life.

Maybe it goes away, but this is the way I've chosen to live: I want to go down or rise up as an artist. I don't want to get swept up in lipstick or whatever the hell.

I'm not some cute guy who is trying to be successful off that. I really want the music to come first.

A lot of these artists are out here don't stay true to why they started doing this in the first place.

Country's more than about what the music sounds like. It's what you're saying and who you are as a person.

I've never made a conscious decision to choose work over other considerations.

I do care about success and all of those things. But I don't care enough to do movies just for that reason.

If I was concerned about my legacy, there’s no way I would ever sit there [and be a reality-show judge]. Once your career becomes about some¬thing other than the music, then that’s what it is. I’ll never make that mistake.

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.

I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.

I'm willing to go wherever with this because music is everything to me. This is my world and how I see it. My music speaks for me in a way that's relatable and truthful.

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.