Nashville Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Ed Weeks

  Summer, Holiday, Kids

  "The Mindy Project's Ed Weeks Reveals All About Women and Acting and Why He Won't Drive a BMW". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. November 19, 2013.

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• I was in Nashville and I was having just the most amazing time there, discovering who I was as an artist because that is such a music city. Everyone there is so friendly and inspiring and down to jam.

  Lisa Origliasso

  Artist, Cities, Friendly

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block... so I don't do much driving... Some people would say they never see me because I don't go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.

  Ben Folds

  Block, Coffee, Two

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

  Kim Carnes

  Creative, Community, Atmosphere

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

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• 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.

  Michael Kosser

  Writing, Rocks, Way

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• There is this place in Nashville called Steak and Shake, which is pretty much the best food, ever. That is our secret, sexy place to go. When I look over at her when she's biting into a steak sandwich and there is some steak sauce dripping down her chin, there is nothing sexier.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Sexy, Secret, Looks

  "Liam Hemsworth — Why I Think Miley Cyrus Is Smokin’ Hot", hollywoodlife.com. November 10, 2011.

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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

  Song, Forever, Looks

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

  Marty Stuart

  Country, Play, Tennessee

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• I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.

  Willie Nelson

  Distance, Forgiving, Enemy

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.53, Penguin

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• 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

  Song, Writing, People

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

  Lucy Hale

  Mom, Country, Tennessee

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• There was a time when I was - after my very first record from Nashville, I thought I might not be one of those who actually really makes it, and I may end up back in Canada, just playing clubs. And that might - this might have just been it.

  Shania Twain

  Records, Clubs, May

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

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• My publishing deal is out of Nashville, my management is split between Nashville and Texas, but we are also getting to play eight other states as well as Canada and Europe this year. I don't want to pigeon-hole myself. When people ask me if I'm Texas or Nashville, I tell them I am just Cody Johnson.

  Cody Johnson

  Eight, Texas, Years

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

  Justin Townes Earle

  Hometown, Stifling

  "Justin Townes Earle: Steve’s Son? Yes, Just as Talented, but Not Political and Much More Fun". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2010.

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• I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city of Nashville now. I'm looking for a place out here to live.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Cities, Coming Out, Heard

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• I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Home, Two, America

  "Garrett Hedlund: 'Life is fun when you're in motion'". Interview With Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.

  Janis Ian

  Couple, Gay, Issues

  "Janis Ian's Controversial 'Society's Child'". Interview with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. March 2, 2009.

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• I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

  Janis Ian

  Home, Three, Television

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• Man, I live in Nashville. I know how good other songwriters and singers are around here. There's a wealth of talent in this town, not to mention the people who shoot in for a week or two to try their hand on lower Broad or the other venues around town.

  Jamey Johnson

  Men, Two, Hands

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• L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.

  Shooter Jennings

  Running, Weather, Culture

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• When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.

  Callie Khouri

  Girl, Stars, Years

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• One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.

  Callie Khouri

  Country, Reason, Hardest

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• Everyone has their own path in life, no matter if it's being a celebrity or a singer. Quite frankly, I didn't move to Nashville and tell myself I wanted to be a singer because I wanted to be a celebrity or I wanted to be somebody that people admired. I wasn't about that. I just loved music.

  Jake Owen

  Moving, People, Matter

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• 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

  Musician, Hollywood, Actors

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• I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Mom, Dad, Home

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