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This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty.
Even though there are incredible songs floating around Nashville, it's important for me to have my voice heard.
I'm one of the lucky artists in Nashville that gets to - I know it sounds cliche - but just write from the heart.
You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.
Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.
Because I have homes in Nashville and in Los Angeles, I've found some pretty amazing places to shop in both cities.
There are people I love in Nashville and would not want to go a day without talking to, but I want to see the world.
I was told 'no' a lot when I first got to Nashville, but I'm pretty stubborn! That's one of my faults and qualities.
For my first restaurant, I wanted to do something very special and close to my heart. Nashville felt like the place.
It's easy to get squashed down in this business, for sure. Nashville can definitely train you to not get too excited.
'Nashville' is a show that I personally truly loved, and to not have it back was a little bit of a heartbreak for me.
I visited Minnie Pearl's home down in Nashville, and I liked it so much I asked the same man to help fix up my place.
I could put in garage doors or work in McDonald's but that's it. So I figured I might as well play the Nashville game.
Most of the time in Nashville, you're so replaceable. Anybody can get another nice-looking guy to sing a country song.
I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.
Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.
There's going to be a point in time when I can go to a NHL game in Nashville with my grandkids. That's really special.
In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.
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.
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.
Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.
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.
I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the radio in the car.
I live on eight acres out in the country in Nashville, and it gets creepy and foggy. It's the best atmosphere to write songs.
Our creative communities in Nashville, in L.A. and New York, and in Austin, those are communities you want to see stay viable.
The first time I remember going to Nashville was in 1971 back when 'Snowbird' was a hit and I performed at the Grand Ole Opry.
'Neil Young Heart of Gold', that was a valentine to Nashville and country music in the Grand Ole Opry tradition and Hank Williams.
'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.
To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.
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 Charlottesville was shocking for some, but it wasn't for me or for my family, I mean, because I grew up in 1980s Nashville.
One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.
I listen to a lot of Nashville local music, which, for the most part, is punk and grunge music but also alt-country stuff down here.
If Hank Williams had lived any longer, his name would have been one of the most hated in the land. Nashville would have dug him deep.
I thought, when I came to Nashville, I was going to hook up with some of the top country writers in town and write some country tunes.
If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years.
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.
A creative space is an important thing. There are so many studios that feel like doctor's offices in Nashville. I couldn't write there.
I went to Nashville when I was 10. Tried to get a record deal. Everybody was like, 'You're 10. It's not gonna happen. Come back later.'
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.
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.
Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.
The Smithsonian should box and preserve Tim McGraw's Nashville den for a future exhibit entitled 'Early 21st Century American Man Cave.'
I'm not a big country guy even though I'm from Nashville. I like some songs, but I wouldn't turn on a country radio station or anything.
A lot of time, if you spend too much time in Nashville, songwriters get caught up in charts and numbers and the music business politics.
That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.
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.
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.
I grew up in Nashville in a white suburb. We lived next to a Klan member. We didn't see hoods, but my dad knew that guy was a Grand Dragon.