Nashville Quotes
Collection of top 84 famous quotes about Nashville
Nashville Quotes & Sayings
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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
— Alan Jackson
The Smithsonian should box and preserve Tim McGraw's Nashville den for a future exhibit entitled 'Early 21st Century American Man Cave.'
— Stephen Rodrick
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 fell in love with Nashville. I got lots of work.
— Dan Fogelberg
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
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
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
This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty.
— Katy Perry
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
If you went to school in Nashville, you were aware of all those '60s rockabilly people.
— Kim Dickens
Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.
— Callie Khouri
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
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
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 the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.
— Callie Khouri
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.
— Joanna Garcia
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
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
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
There is nothing else to do in Nashville except for write songs.
— Jessie Baylin
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
Raspberry, strawberry, lemon and lime
What do I care
Blueberry, apple, cherry, pumpkin and plum
Call me for dinner
Honey, I'll be there — Bob Dylan
What do I care
Blueberry, apple, cherry, pumpkin and plum
Call me for dinner
Honey, I'll be there — Bob Dylan
Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.
— Jerry Jeff Walker
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
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
Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.
— Loretta Lynn
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
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
I loved Nashville. I was amazed by the whole place.
— Shawn Mendes
I wanted to live in Nashville. I wanted to sing country.
— Ronnie Milsap
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 brought you something. It's my sister's coat. It
gets cold in Nashville in the wintertime. — Nancy B. Brewer
gets cold in Nashville in the wintertime. — Nancy B. Brewer
If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
— Patrick Carney
I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.
— Miley Cyrus
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
I'm the 'Scandal'-'Nashville' kind of TV watcher.
— Blake McIver Ewing
L.A. was never me. Nashville is my home.
— Jana Kramer
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
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.
— Dustin Lynch
It's a holy city for music.
— Hugh Laurie
There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting.
— Benmont Tench
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
Our creative communities in Nashville, in L.A. and New York, and in Austin, those are communities you want to see stay viable.
— Marsha Blackburn
Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.
— Marty Stuart
Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.
— Hunter S. Jones
Nashville, man. That's the place to be.
— Willie Geist
I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.
— Caitlin Rose
'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.
— Chip Esten
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
Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.
— Justin Townes Earle
I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.
— Charley Pride
I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.
— Scotty McCreery
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
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
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.
— Nicole Kidman
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
The Nashville Network, that's all I would watch as a kid.
— Shane McAnally
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
Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.
— Keith Urban
I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.
— Lucy Hale
Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.
— Imelda May
Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.
— Kim Carnes
I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.
— J. D. Souther
There's nothing like Nashville for making records.
— Carol Channing