Quotes About Music

I'm one of the lucky artists in Nashville that gets to - I know it sounds cliche - but just write from the heart.

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

I love the show 'Nashville,' I mean, that's a show that's pretty incredible.

I was writing and playing in California for 11 years before I moved to Nashville.

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

Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.

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.

There is nothing else to do in Nashville except for write songs.

Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.

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

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

If you went to school in Nashville, you were aware of all those '60s rockabilly people.

There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting.

Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.

If you go in RCA A, you'll realize that it's not just a Nashville thing. It's a studio that belongs to music.

I love the story of the guy coming to Nashville and then kind of getting set down and told, 'This is how the town works,' which, I've totally been there. But the coolest thing about 'Out of Style' is it's a song within a song.

Even though there are incredible songs floating around Nashville, it's important for me to have my voice heard.

I wanted to get better at writing, so I knew I needed to move to Nashville.

Honestly, with pop and rock and things, artists are from all over the place, so they're kind of isolated. The city of Nashville helps create the camaraderie. Everyone moves there for the same reason.

I moved to Nashville with the same kind of mindset that I had in L.A., and that is to make sure you don't get outworked by anybody and make sure you're always writing songs and take every opportunity to play that you can.

My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.

Being a guitarist was scary, honestly, as a girl in Nashville. It just felt like no one was gonna ask me to be in a band and play guitar, like I never was gonna get asked to do that.

I can't really change Nashville.

There was a junk store in Nashville on 8th Avenue, where I bought Patsy Cline's train case for $75.