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“I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it’s simply a town that percolates around country music. Though country-music history is deep and richly steeped throughout the city, this is a place that’s been expanding musically and culturally…People coming from Europe and Canada-there are all kinds of different cultures and different music being represented here. It continues to blossom.”

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Author:Joy Williams

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

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Author:Marty Stuart

“When I was sworn in as Mayor of Nashville back in 1991, I have to admit to you that I felt for several weeks like a bit of an outsider who had somehow taken over but didnt really belong in this nice palace. I secretly wondered if the real mayor would come back from vacation one day and call the police.”

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Author:Phil Bredesen

“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.”

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Author:Nick Lowe

“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.”

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Author:Deana Carter

“Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.”

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Author:Deana Carter

“After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.”

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Author:Robyn Hitchcock

“The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.”

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Author:Tom T. Hall

“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.”

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Author:Tom T. Hall

“To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.”

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Author:Alan Jackson

“But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.”

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Author:Suzy Bogguss

“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.”

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Author:Keith Urban

“The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.”

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Author:Young Buck

“I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.”

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Author:Ann Patchett

“In terms of American Horror Story and Nashville, what attracted me to those, and Friday Night Lights, for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting.”

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Author:Connie Britton

“Theres nothing like Nashville for making records.”

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Author:Carol Channing

“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.”

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Author:Lee Ann Womack

“Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.”

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Author:Rick Danko

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

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Author:Dave Grohl

“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.”

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Author:Tony Kushner

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

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Author:Crystal Gayle

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

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Author:Crystal Gayle

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

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Author:Kim Carnes

“I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.”

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Author:Otis Blackwell

“I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me.”

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Author:Eric Church

“If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.”

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Author:Patrick Carney

“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.”

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Author:Charlie Daniels

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

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Author:Roy Ayers

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

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Author:Dierks Bentley

“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.”

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Author:Justin Townes Earle

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

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Author:Justin Townes Earle

“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.”

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Author:Garrett Hedlund

“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.”

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Author:Garrett Hedlund

“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.”

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Author:Garrett Hedlund

“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.”

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Author:Janis Ian

“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.”

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Author:Janis Ian

“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.”

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Author:Jamey Johnson

“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.”

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Author:Shooter Jennings

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

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Author:Wanda Jackson

“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.”

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Author:Callie Khouri

“One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.”

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Author:Callie Khouri

“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.”

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Author:Callie Khouri

“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.”

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Author:Callie Khouri

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