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  • I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal. -- Miley Cyrus
  • When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could. -- Loretta Lynn
  • Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue. -- Faith Hill
  • I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn. -- Jimmy Buffett
  • Theres nothing like Nashville for making records. -- Carol Channing
  • There's nothing like Nashville for making records. -- Carol Channing
  • It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists. -- Crystal Gayle
  • My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry. -- Taylor Swift
  • But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home. -- Suzy Bogguss
  • I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good. -- Roy Ayers
  • Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line. -- Crystal Gayle
  • Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love. -- Taylor Swift
  • If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other. -- Wanda Jackson
  • Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints. -- Loretta Lynn
  • I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right. -- Blake Shelton
  • There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man. -- Loretta Lynn
  • All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could. -- Hunter Hayes
  • One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different. -- Blake Shelton
  • My first place in Nashville was like 'Animal House.' The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise. -- Charlie Worsham
  • I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music. -- Keith Urban
  • Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish. -- Madi Diaz
  • After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid. -- Robyn Hitchcock
  • I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like. -- Otis Blackwell
  • Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town. -- Faith Hill
  • The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal. -- Will Chase
  • I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too. -- Luke Bryan
  • I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville. -- Kris Kristofferson
  • I love chocolate, and I love to shop - just give me a good boutique. I like mall scenarios, too, because there's more right there at hand. I think Nashville could use some better shopping! -- Carrie Underwood
  • Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that. -- Ed Sheeran
  • And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine. -- Lee Ann Womack
  • The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go. -- Young Buck
  • If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years. -- Kid Rock
  • I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time. -- Jim Varney
  • I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea. -- Tyler Farr
  • Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with. -- Deana Carter
  • I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did. -- Charlie Daniels
  • I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashville as a great family man who has dedicated his life to helping others and, in that regard, he has followed in his father's footsteps. -- John Jay Hooker
  • My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them. -- Dolly Parton
  • I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville - September 1, 2001. That's the biggest step to getting here is making that move. Anything that happens, the wonderful opportunities that happen to you, can't happen until you make that move. -- Luke Bryan
  • It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique. -- Shania Twain
  • Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville. -- Rick Danko
  • I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. -- Taylor Swift
  • Nashville will never be the same. -- Larry Gatlin
  • Nashville, man. That's the place to be. -- Willie Geist
  • I think Nashville could use some better shopping! -- Carrie Underwood
  • L.A. was never me. Nashville is my home. -- Jana Kramer
  • Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country. -- Afrojack
  • I fell in love with Nashville. I got lots of work. -- Dan Fogelberg
  • Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling. -- Justin Townes Earle
  • Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America, -- Dave Grohl
  • Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville. -- Keith Urban
  • I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album. -- Scotty McCreery
  • In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work. -- Bill Anderson
  • Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors. -- Donal Henahan
  • I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville. -- Marc Edwards
  • Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville. -- Don McLean
  • Im Sorry was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings. -- Brenda Lee
  • I've always been a big fan of Nashville, and I have friends that live there. -- Eric Close
  • L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community. -- Sheryl Crow
  • Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music. -- Marty Stuart
  • I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones. -- Charley Pride
  • If you went to school in Nashville, you were aware of all those '60s rockabilly people. -- Kim Dickens
  • If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker. -- Patrick Carney
  • I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to. -- Lucy Hale
  • Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues. -- Chip Esten
  • 'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues. -- Chip Esten
  • Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else. -- Kim Carnes
  • There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting. -- Benmont Tench
  • To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever. -- Alan Jackson
  • ... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that. -- Sam Palladio
  • Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it. -- Larry the Cable Guy
  • The Smithsonian should box and preserve Tim McGraw's Nashville den for a future exhibit entitled 'Early 21st Century American Man Cave.' -- Stephen Rodrick
  • You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville. -- Richie Sambora
  • One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other. -- Callie Khouri
  • That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best. -- Dierks Bentley
  • The enticing allure of Nashville is that there is always something new coming down the pike. Put this record on and you'll hear footsteps. -- Tom T. Hall
  • I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years. -- Steve Earle
  • There's an energy about Nashville that I love and I miss. And it's so awesome right now. It has a new energy that's so cool. -- Trisha Yearwood
  • I love Nashville, and I love the South, but on a professional level, I had started feeling smothered by the Nashville way of doing things. -- Deana Carter
  • Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter. -- Melissa Manchester
  • Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America. -- Paul Stanley
  • I love Nashville. I've been here so many times... oh man, I would stay here for a year if I could. It's just so much fun. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • My first place in Nashville was like Animal House. The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise. -- Charlie Worsham
  • Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess. -- Callie Khouri
  • The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories. -- Tony Kushner
  • When I moved to Nashville, I didn't really let myself sonically explore, but things naturally got a little more poppy. And in L.A., even more so. -- Madi Diaz
  • There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too. -- Dolly Parton
  • I have two sons, ages 38 and 25 in Texas, and my wife and seven year old daughter here in Nashville. On New Year's I'd rather be with them. -- Delbert McClinton
  • When I first got to Nashville, somebody said that [Kris Kristofferson and I] were the only two people who could describe Dolly Parton without using their hands. -- Tom T. Hall
  • I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville. -- Lionel Richie
  • In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike -- Christopher Cross
  • I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel. -- Andrew Sarris
  • I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music. -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • When I was in Nashville, I went to our Macy's and went and tried on all the Hannah Montana stuff. Then I said, 'This is weird, I'm wearing my face. -- Miley Cyrus
  • In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around. -- Michael Kosser
  • Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent. -- Nick Lowe
  • I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.' -- Harmony Korine
  • I think country music is a champion of women. That stuff coming out of Nashville now wants to see a woman looking good in the kitchen whipping up some biscuits. -- Ketch Secor
  • My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it's my home, it's Music City. It's like, everybody there is so artistic and so creative, and nice! Everybody's really friendly. -- Taylor Swift
  • Nashville is only a couple of hours from New York, and people just move at a slower pace there - and they don't care who you are or what you do. -- Dakota Johnson
  • I may yet move [from Nashville], and where would I move if not Texas or New Mexico? I couldn't afford a home in California. I need to travel out of there occasionally. -- Steve Young
  • I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here. -- Brandy Clark
  • The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music...There's rock & roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town...There's so much fun stuff to get in to. -- Connie Britton
  • I could get drunk and run around Nashville naked. But I won't because I want to set a good example for my fans. I think they deserve to have a role model. -- Taylor Swift
  • I went to L.A. to be Brad Pitt; now I just want to be Gene Hackman. I came to Nashville to be Kenny Chesney. I'd be very fortunate to be George Strait. -- Christian Kane
  • I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do. -- Lucinda Williams
  • I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward. -- Janis Ian
  • My album was recorded in Nashville. It used to be all about "We're from Texas, forget Nashville," well you'll never hear me say that. Nashville isn't bad as long as you're true to yourself. -- Cody Johnson
  • Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed. -- Brian Setzer
  • I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years. -- Bernie Leadon
  • I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about. -- Charlie Daniels
  • I'm from Tullahoma, TN which is an hour south of Nashville, and I grew up and wanted to be like Garth Brooks, so I moved to Nashville when I was 18 to chase a dream. -- Dustin Lynch
  • The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing. -- Tom T. Hall
  • I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid. -- Christian Kane
  • Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle. -- O. Henry
  • When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don't really have the blues, but I can appreciate the honesty and the simplicity of it. -- Gin Wigmore
  • Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me. -- Kaskade
  • In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like, "Okay, well I want to be a songwriter," 'cause it was like close to Nashville. -- PJ Harvey
  • If actors are making a little film with me at 2am in Nashville, they're not doing it to get paid. They're doing it because there's something special about the characters, which helps the film become more interesting. -- Dito Montiel
  • Sometimes I have parties at my house in Nashville and it's clothing-optional, and we just body-paint each other and run around, and I have a giant bed. I'm very much in touch with that side of myself. -- Kesha
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