Nashville Quotes

• 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
  • Culture
  • Running
  • Actors

• 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
  • Groups
  • Piano
  • Around

• I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Know
  • About
  • Jeans

• I actually auditioned for 'Nashville' while shooting on another project located in Boston. I had a couple weeks off from shooting and decided to go back to L.A. While I was there, my manager suggested I go in for the role on 'Nashville.'

  

  Joseph David-Jones
  • Role
  • Nashville
  • Suggested

• When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Music
  • Body
  • Made

• 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
  • People
  • Writing
  • Intention

• 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
  • Wife
  • Texas
  • Rather

• My album was recorded in Nashville. It used to be all about "We're from Texas, forget Nashville," well you'll never hear me say that. Nashville isn't bad as long as you're true to yourself.

  

  Cody Johnson
  • Long
  • Forget
  • Albums

• I've always been an outsider. When I did magic, I was the only kid. When I worked with Johnny Cash, I was completely out of place in Nashville. And when I started Def Jam, I was the only white guy in the hip-hop world.

  

  Rick Rubin
  • Started
  • Worked
  • Nashville

• 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
  • White
  • Courses
  • Nashville

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