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There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

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.

The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

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.

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.

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

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.

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.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

Theres nothing like Nashville for making records.

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.

It's the warmest, loveliest community I've ever set foot in. For me, it's the perfect place to live. It's the best part of America.

I think Nashville could use some better shopping!

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.

... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.

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.

Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.

But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.

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.

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.

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.

Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.

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.

It's a holy city for music.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.

Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.

Nashville, man. That's the place to be.

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.

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.

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.

This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty.

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.

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.

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.

Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.

Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

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

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.