I was a staff songwriter for Combine Music Publishing in Nashville for seven years. I'd sit around with a groups of friends with a Yamaha piano and a tape recorder and crank out songs.
Michael Bacon
MusicFriendsNashvilleOutPiano
I'm openly gay, and I've got a major label record deal in Nashville, and it happened when I was 42 years old. It's not supposed to happen that way.
Mary Gauthier
GayWayNashvilleOldYearsHappen
I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.
Johnny Gimble
WorkTodayGratefulMeNashville
Just being a singer in Nashville is hard because everyone does music here, and so many people do it really well. But then, the fact that I do this alternative kind of pop music, dreampop... It's like I'm the lone unicorn roaming around this town.
Chelsea Lankes
MusicPeopleKindNashvilleSinger
I've been asked a million times to move to Nashville, but I just can't seem to do it.
Brantley Gilbert
NashvilleSeemMoveBeenMillion
I loved Nashville. I was amazed by the whole place.
Shawn Mendes
LovedPlaceNashvilleWholeAmazed
When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream in music.
Kelsea Ballerini
MusicMomDreamNashvilleEverything
I'm from Tullahoma, TN which is an hour south of Nashville, and I grew up and wanted to be like Garth Brooks, so I moved to Nashville when I was 18 to chase a dream.
Dustin Lynch
DreamNashvilleUpChaseLikeHour
I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.
Blake Shelton
MusicDoingNashvilleRightMoved
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
MeEndKindNashvilleMovementOut
We want to support Nashville, support the community there and be a part of it.
Zac Brown
CommunitySupportWantNashville
I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.
Sam Hunt
FeelFindTroubleMy OwnNashville
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
MyselfMoreExploreNashvilleLittle
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
SupportPeopleWayNashvilleMagical
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.
Soccer Mommy
MusicDownListenNashvillePunk
I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.
Miley Cyrus
SmallSmall TownNashvilleEverything
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
WorkMeWhiteTalkNashvilleHim
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.
Chris Carmack
ThoughtCountryWriteNashvilleTop
'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.
Brenda Lee
SorryNashvilleFirstOutStrings
The Nashville Network, that's all I would watch as a kid.
Shane McAnally
NashvilleKidWatchWouldNetwork
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.
Kris Kristofferson
DoneNashvilleYearsCashFiveBeen
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.
StubbornNashvilleFirstPrettyGot
I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.
Bernie Leadon
MovingWritingYearThreeNashville
I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that's what's big in Nashville - the collaborative part of songwriting.
Jacob Whitesides
StoryWillNashvilleSongwritingBig
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