Nashville Quotes

My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.

Nashville will never be the same.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

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.

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.

Im Sorry was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

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.

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.

I've learned after doing a couple records that if it feels good and it's easy, then that's usually a good sign. And that feeling sorta went with us to Nashville - everything was just natural.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

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.

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.

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell.

Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.

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.

L.A. was never me. Nashville is my home.

Everyone in Nashville's got DUIs because there's no public transportation and everyone's too lazy to call a taxi.

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.

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.

I fell in love with Nashville. I got lots of work.

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.

Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.

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.

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.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

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.

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.'

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!

All roads are tough, but you have to choose the one you know you'll never be sorry for taking.

When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream in music.

Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.