Mattea, Kathy Filmography

• Charlie Daniels: A Twin Pines Christmas
  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• On Stage at the Kennedy Center: A Holiday Concert for the Troops with Marvin Hamlisch
  2003, role: actress , character name: Herself - Performer
• The Griffin and the Minor Canon
  2002, role: actress , character name: Mother
• Rachel and Andrew Jackson: A Love Story
  2001, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• Roger Miller Remembered
  1998, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Miracle on Highway 31
  1997, role: actress , character name: Herself
• America's Music: The Roots of Country
  1996, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The 18th Annual CableACE Awards
  1996, role: actress , character name: Herself - Presenter
• 1995 VH1 Honors
  1995, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Maverick
  1994, role: actress , character name: Woman with Concealed Guns
• In a New Light '94
  1994, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Roots of Country: Nashville Celebrates the Ryman
  1994, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Billy Ray Cyrus: Dreams Come True
  1993, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Women of Country
  1993, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Burt Reynolds' Conversations with...
  1992, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The 19th Annual American Music Awards
  1992, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Voices that Care
  1991, role: actress , character name: Herself - Lead Vocals
• 25th Annual Country Music Association Awards
  1991, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Montana Christmas Skies
  1991, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The 26th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards
  1991, role: actress , character name: Herself
• 24th Annual Country Music Association Awards
  1990, role: actress , character name: Herself - Performer
• The 25th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards
  1990, role: actress , character name: Herself
• An All Star Salute to Country Music
  1990, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The 24th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards
  1989, role: actress , character name: Herself
• 22nd Annual Country Music Association Awards
  1988, role: actress , character name: Herself - Performer

Famous quotes by Kathy Mattea:

"You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself."

"You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out."

"Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed."

"Love travels, the miles, upon the wings of angels. Love finds you, I swear it's true, and I will love you from here."

"If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at."

"I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I'm going. But it's not always something I know on the front-end."

"Anyway, our family went into complete crisis mode. I have two older brothers, and we rallied as a family."

"Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert."

"I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that."

"So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone."

"I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again."

"Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work."

"I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life."

"I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball."

"Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values."

"I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future."

"Your voice is vibrant for only a certain part of your life. There are some records I've always wanted to make, and I don't know if I want to waste this time beating on the door of the charts."

"When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural."

"That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb."