#nashville

You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#best #better #better singer #get #know

We have been so pleased with the response to our unique schools in the Nashville area, and we are confident that other areas will embrace our concept, as well. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#areas #been #concept #confident #embrace

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

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

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. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#been #best #compliment #day #disc

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

— Hunter Hayes

#form #i #knew #make #moved

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors. ↗

— Donal Henahan

#folk #folk music #known #left #long

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. ↗

— Deana Carter

#because #begin #box #came #even

Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#because #complaints #got #her #i

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#man #more #nashville #proving #same

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#ate #came #cars #could #country