Nashville Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Used, Music Business, Moved

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• 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

  Cities, People, Giving

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• 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

  Tired, Careers, Band

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

  Roy Ayers

  Play, Would Be

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• It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.

  Shania Twain

  Dream, Song, Attitude

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Taken, Long, Thank God

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

  Wanda Jackson

  Records, Coast, Needed

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• 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.

  Jim Varney

  Country, Song, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Crystal Gayle

  Integrity, Lines, Used

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• 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.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Music, Country, Texas

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

  Crystal Gayle

  Artist, Used, Used To Be

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

  Loretta Lynn

  Winning, Awards, Olivia

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• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Mother, Country, Song

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• 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

  Country, Heart, Thinking

  "Aussie Keith Urban's success 'destiny'" By Lauren Hunter, cnn.com. February 19, 2001.

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• 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

  Cute, Character, Law

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• It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Sweet, Dog, New York

  "Harlem River Blues Man". Interview with Michael Slenske, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 23, 2011.

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• 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.

  Kid Rock

  Country, Years, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Apr 03, 2014

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• 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

  Dream, Cowboy, Sight

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• 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

  Special, Looks, Firsts

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• It wasn't until I moved to Nashville that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing my whole career, the feeling of being able to sit around with a guitar and have people know each other's songs and know songs from people who've influenced all of us. When I moved here pretty early on Vince Gill started calling me to do guitar pulls, and I thought, gosh, this is just like heaven on earth down here.

  Sheryl Crow

  Song, Guitar, Careers

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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.

  Katy Perry

  Song, Writing, Cities

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• I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Favorites Things, Kind

  "Taylor Swift On Songwriting, Nashville & the Thrill of Spontaneous Music Making". Associated Press Interview, www.billboard.com. October 15, 2013.

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

  Scotty McCreery

  Albums, Want, Scotty

  "American Idol's Scotty McCreery on Dating Rumors: Lauren and I Sound Great Together". www.foxnews.com. May 26, 2011.

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• 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

  Rights, Race, Use

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• These people shred. That's what I was saying about Nashville-you can go to an open mic night at the Holiday Inn and probably see more talented musicians than the ones touring. When we first came down here I was like, "Wow I'm glad we didn't cut our teeth down here, there's so much competition." You're being challenged constantly because you're surrounded by these amazing musicians.

  Lzzy Hale

  Holiday, Cutting, Night

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