Nashville famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.
-- Afrojack -
To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
-- Alan Jackson -
Im Sorry was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.
-- Brenda Lee -
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 -
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 -
One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
-- Callie Khouri -
When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.
-- Callie Khouri -
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 -
Theres nothing like Nashville for making records.
-- Carol Channing -
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 -
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 -
Now that I'm in 'Nashville,' the thing that I'm loving the most is co-writing. You walk into the room and you shake hands with someone you've never met before and you walk out four hours later and you've got this thing... sharing ideas and everything, it's almost magical, like a miracle.
-- Chip Esten -
Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.
-- Crystal Gayle -
It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.
-- Crystal Gayle -
Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America,
-- Dave Grohl -
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 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 -
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 -
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 -
Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.
-- Don McLean -
It's basically a city of songwriters and that's what gives it it's strength, that's what gives it its lasting ability. You've got people making all different kinds of music and that's what attracts me to Nashville as Music City.
-- Emmylou Harris -
When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on
-- Eric Clapton -
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 -
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 -
There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.
-- Faith Hill -
I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city of Nashville now. I'm looking for a place out here to live.
-- Garrett Hedlund -
I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.
-- Garrett Hedlund -
All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.
-- Hunter Hayes -
Everyone has their own path in life, no matter if it's being a celebrity or a singer. Quite frankly, I didn't move to Nashville and tell myself I wanted to be a singer because I wanted to be a celebrity or I wanted to be somebody that people admired. I wasn't about that. I just loved music.
-- Jake Owen -
Man, I live in Nashville. I know how good other songwriters and singers are around here. There's a wealth of talent in this town, not to mention the people who shoot in for a week or two to try their hand on lower Broad or the other venues around town.
-- Jamey Johnson -
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 -
I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.
-- Janis Ian -
I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last few years, Georgia has definitely kind of risen to the top as far as the crop of young artists coming out of this area that are kind of making waves, you know?
-- Jason Aldean -
My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto.
-- Josh Turner -
I admire this town a lot. They take care of their own. There's not a lot of places in the world, much less America, that do that. It's just a great place.
-- Justin Timberlake -
Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.
-- Justin Townes Earle -
Country music was a part of my life. Now it isn't. We had a good relationship, really, but we wanted each other at arm's length. The people in Nashville didn't want to be responsible for my looks or my actions. But they sure did like the listeners I brought.
-- K. D. Lang -
Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.
-- Keith Urban -
Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.
-- Kim Carnes -
If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it. People often say that my first years in Nashville, when I wasn't getting anything cut, were tough. Hell, those were great years.
-- Kris Kristofferson -
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 -
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.
-- Lawrence Wright -
There is this place in Nashville called Steak and Shake, which is pretty much the best food, ever. That is our secret, sexy place to go. When I look over at her when she's biting into a steak sandwich and there is some steak sauce dripping down her chin, there is nothing sexier.
-- Liam Hemsworth -
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 -
I was in Nashville and I was having just the most amazing time there, discovering who I was as an artist because that is such a music city. Everyone there is so friendly and inspiring and down to jam.
-- Lisa Origliasso -
Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.
-- Loretta Lynn -
I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.
-- Lucy Hale -
From the moment I stepped foot in Music City I have had a love affair with the people and burgeoning culinary scene. This city's long, highly-respected cultural history, coupled with the recent growth and development is inspiring. I could not be happier with my decision and I'm truly excited to call Nashville my home.
-- Maneet Chauhan -
As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it...it's a humbling experience...
-- Mark Knopfler -
Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.
-- Marty Stuart -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
-- Patrick Carney -
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 -
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 -
Nashville feels like a big little town to me. It's got lots of culture and lots of interesting things to do and lots of interesting people. At the same time, it feels very small and tight-knit and very close. Everyone feels like they know each other.
-- Ricky Schroder -
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 -
... 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 -
... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.
-- Sandra Bernhard -
I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.
-- Scotty McCreery -
L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.
-- Shooter Jennings -
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 -
But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.
-- Suzy Bogguss -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
-- Wanda Jackson -
When I was growing up, Nashville was the place to go if you had songs to sell and thought you had talent and wanted to tour and be on Grand Ole Opry [radio show]. It was the big deal back in those days to play the Grand Ole Opry. And you could travel around the world saying, "Hi, I'm Willie from the Grand Ole Opry".
-- Willie Nelson -
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 -
I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.
-- Caitlin Rose -
It's something that Cory Morrow said to me a long time ago - "Don't ever forget why Nashville is Nashville. The Opry is there for a reason. Country music lives there. Don't be bitter. And don't ever treat Texas or Nashville like either one isn't important."
-- Cody Johnson -
My publishing deal is out of Nashville, my management is split between Nashville and Texas, but we are also getting to play eight other states as well as Canada and Europe this year. I don't want to pigeon-hole myself. When people ask me if I'm Texas or Nashville, I tell them I am just Cody Johnson.
-- Cody Johnson -
I don't know that we're beating anyone at their own game. I just think that we tried to include a lot of Nashville entities from the very beginning, just to see if that would work. We were trying to take my music to a different level and some people wanted me to change my style and my image, obviously that's not going to happen so we simply thanked those people for their time.
-- Cody Johnson -
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 -
The first time I go out to Nashville, ever (at this point I had only heard the rumors about what it's like) I had three writing sessions set up. The first two canceled on me. I was kind of pissed off at that point. So I just went back to my hotel room and started writing. And even though I've been to L.A. and experienced a lot of things, at the end of the day I just start to feel like I'm playing acoustically at the first bar I ever played at.
-- Curtis Grimes -
I think all of us would agree that a lot of Christian radio sounds the same. A lot of music that comes out of Nashville kind of has a little bit of the same vibe. Because I don't live in Nashville, I surround myself with a culture and an influence that's outside that bubble. So when the church hears it, it's refreshing, and when the world hears it, it sounds like something they want to listen to.
-- Dominic Balli -
I was writing for a publishing company in this old building right next to the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville. We were on the top floor, and Combine Music was on the bottom floor. I was friends with all those guys.
-- Donnie Fritts -
I moved cities for about four months to try to provoke some inspiration and put myself in an uncomfortable situation where I would be meeting new people and have a change in locale. I look back at my career and one of my favorite records I ever made was right after I moved to Nashville.
-- Matt Wertz -
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 -
Great music can come from anywhere around the globe. And there has always been a music business. It just wasn't recorded, nor was it centered in New York, London, Los Angeles or Nashville but rather St Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin, Milan and Paris.
-- Seymour Stein -
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 -
I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block... so I don't do much driving... Some people would say they never see me because I don't go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
-- Ben Folds -
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 -
Recording in Nashville was absolutely essential to get the sound, the musicians, the atmosphere, the warmth... There are just cult places like that in the world, like Chicago for the blues or New York for jazz. Nothing sounds the same in Nashville as it does elsewhere. Nashville is the Mecca of country music and everyone knows it.
-- Roch Voisine -
I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.
-- Roy Ayers -
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 -
I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.
-- Marc Edwards
