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I live in Nashville, and I don't know how many people there would call me country. I really star...
CAITLIN ROSE When I think about Great American Country's decision to come to Nashville, I see a much bigger pictu...
BILL PURCELL I wanted to live in Nashville. I wanted to sing country.
RONNIE MILSAP![]()
'Neil Young Heart of Gold', that was a valentine to Nashville and country music in the Grand...
JONATHAN DEMME The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
PATSY CLINE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a countr...
RICK DANKO![]()
And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER![]()
I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I start...
TAYLOR SWIFT Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - th...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON I'm from Tullahoma, TN which is an hour south of Nashville, and I grew up and wanted to be like ...
DUSTIN LYNCH![]()
I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surpri...
GARRETT HEDLUND![]()
If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving...
KID ROCK![]()
Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Having worked in Nashville and then seeing the scope of this studio, I was blown away. It doesn't ge...
RON BENNETT When I was growing up, kids wouldn't come out to my place because I was too far out in the country.
DAVE BLACK Nashville was the cavalry. When all of us on our bus were injured and suffered tremendously with smo...
HANK THOMAS We were excited to go to Nashville because it came down to Nashville or San Francisco and either pla...
BRENNAN SCHMIDT My first place in Nashville was like 'Animal House.' The whole band lived under one roof, an...
CHARLIE WORSHAM![]()
When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream i...
KELSEA BALLERINI There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has co...
LAURA BELL BUNDY![]()
The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA There's more per capita than any other place in the world in Texas, ... Country music just brings th...
GERONIMO It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they...
ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE![]()
When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and j...
KELSEA BALLERINI 'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart ...
CHIP ESTEN I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam...
LAURA BELL BUNDY We grew up in Nashville, but my brothers and I and my friends — we weren't steeped in country musi...
DEANA CARTER We grew up in Nashville, but my brothers and I and my friends we weren't steeped in country music...
DEANA CARTER I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!
JONATHAN GROFF [Michaels has had a diverse career, which includes music that crossed over to contemporary country c...
BRET MICHAELS I feel like Nashville has really embraced me with open arms. I was a little worried at first; you kn...
CASSADEE POPE But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER![]()
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER I played on three of Bob Dylan's albums. I have very pleasant memories, especially the Nashville Sky...
CHARLIE DANIELS I love everybody in Nashville. I love the music that's coming out of that place, and I really do bel...
BIG KENNY![]()
The last thing I wanted to do was mimic him. I wanted to get his essence. It was the hardest thing I...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part ...
JIM VARNEY Our business is based in Nashville, and it always will be, but New York City is still our No. 1 or N...
KIX BROOKS![]()
I think about me and my dad taking a road trip from Phoenix to Nashville when I was 19. He's no ...
DIERKS BENTLEY When you go to Nashville, you know that's the home of country music. New York needed to step up to t...
DEBRA HARRIS I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that thi...
PATRICK CHAN Nashville was one of those teams that was really suffering financially under the old system.
ANDY BERNSTEIN When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So...
MARY POPE OSBORNE What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was...
LAURA BELL BUNDY![]()
I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer.
MITT ROMNEY![]()
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER![]()
One of the reasons I chose Tufts is that they have one of the best veterinary schools in the country...
TRACY CHAPMAN I don't think it ever got to the point where I was worried about not being here for the start of tra...
ADAM HALL The reason I agreed to go to Indonesia because at one time it was a socialist country for one year-t...
ROBERT JENKINS Trent was a complete gentleman and waited patiently for me to speak with him. When he did get his ch...
DOUG HOWARD![]()
When I came here, Sunset Boulevard was in the country. It was not even asphalted when I came here in...
BILLY WILDER Nashville was a tough call. I've always wanted to work in this district. I knew an opportunity would...
CHRIS WOOD![]()
Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA![]()
When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing w...
LENNY KRAVITZ I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON![]()
I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT![]()
I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER![]()
I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT![]()
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every da...
ERIC CHURCH In New Orleans, bounce music was prevalent. That was all they wanted to hear. It was new and trendy,...
MYSTIKAL I love Nashville. I was down there recently, and I was talking to all the cab drivers, they're all s...
ARTHUR GODFREY![]()
I was born in India - but never really lived there.
AASIF MANDVI That was one of the huge reasons I wanted to work for him. He was provocative and right out in front...
CATHERINE MUNSON Why did you marry Dad, Mom?"
My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <...
MARGARET MCMULLAN It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated ...
DAVE HAYWOOD![]()
Nashville was so great in welcoming me to CMA Music Festival last year, and I am so excited to be co...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD I enlisted in the Air Corps, and I was doing what I wanted to do to help the country.
LIONEL GREENBERG![]()
The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG![]()
The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA![]()
I consider the recording studio where I was born.
JIMMY IOVINE The last time I saw Don was last June at a Mayberry Reunion in Nashville.
MAGGIE PETERSON If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh...
DARIUS RUCKER Just because I’ve been gone from this country for most of my life doesn’t mean I understand it a...
FIONA ZEDDE When I decided to go to art school, it wasn't necessarily something I thought I needed. No one t...
MICKALENE THOMAS I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted ...
MELANIE LAURENT I was told 'no' a lot when I first got to Nashville, but I'm pretty stubborn! That's...
DUSTIN LYNCH I was forced to come into politics because Saakashvili had destroyed the opposition. I had a choice ...
BIDZINA IVANISHVILI This was something Dan wanted to do. He was adamant about going back to Iraq after being in Kosovo. ...
BRIAN REIMERS The great thing about the show is that it spawned all these other areas. When we opened the show in ...
JEANIE LINDERS![]()
There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really want...
WHOOPI GOLDBERG![]()
When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country musi...
DIERKS BENTLEY![]()
There used to be a strong belief that if you wanted to know what was really going on in a country, t...
MICHAEL KORDA![]()
Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.
GAYLE FORMAN It seemed like the only thing to do was to crank the volume of my tape of British music in protest. ...
JOE PERNICE I just wanted to do a music show, with the whole realm of music from Ella Fitzgerald to rock bands l...
GLEN CAMPBELL I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a c...
CARLENE CARTER![]()
My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you li...
LUKE BRYAN I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. T...
DARBY STANCHFIELD I was born and raised in the Northeast, and country music oftentimes is attached to a stereotype, an...
PETE FISHER![]()
I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me ...
CHRIS COLFER I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio, ... Country music is supposed to have steel and f...
GRETCHEN WILSON![]()
Ip Man was an extraordinary man who lived during extraordinary times. He was born to a rich family w...
WONG KAR-WAI One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the oppor...
JADA PINKETT SMITH When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn'...
CARLENE CARTER The great thing about Nashville back in the day was that the old guys hung out where the young guys ...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out...
IRIS CHANG
CAITLIN ROSE When I think about Great American Country's decision to come to Nashville, I see a much bigger pictu...
BILL PURCELL I wanted to live in Nashville. I wanted to sing country.
RONNIE MILSAP
'Neil Young Heart of Gold', that was a valentine to Nashville and country music in the Grand... JONATHAN DEMME The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
PATSY CLINE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a countr...
RICK DANKO
And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER
I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I start... TAYLOR SWIFT Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - th...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON I'm from Tullahoma, TN which is an hour south of Nashville, and I grew up and wanted to be like ...
DUSTIN LYNCH
I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surpri... GARRETT HEDLUND
If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving... KID ROCK
Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future. CRAIG GROESCHEL Having worked in Nashville and then seeing the scope of this studio, I was blown away. It doesn't ge...
RON BENNETT When I was growing up, kids wouldn't come out to my place because I was too far out in the country.
DAVE BLACK Nashville was the cavalry. When all of us on our bus were injured and suffered tremendously with smo...
HANK THOMAS We were excited to go to Nashville because it came down to Nashville or San Francisco and either pla...
BRENNAN SCHMIDT My first place in Nashville was like 'Animal House.' The whole band lived under one roof, an...
CHARLIE WORSHAM
When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream i... KELSEA BALLERINI There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has co...
LAURA BELL BUNDY
The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ... CHRISTINA ENGELA There's more per capita than any other place in the world in Texas, ... Country music just brings th...
GERONIMO It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they...
ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE
When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and j... KELSEA BALLERINI 'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart ...
CHIP ESTEN I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam...
LAURA BELL BUNDY We grew up in Nashville, but my brothers and I and my friends — we weren't steeped in country musi...
DEANA CARTER We grew up in Nashville, but my brothers and I and my friends we weren't steeped in country music...
DEANA CARTER I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!
JONATHAN GROFF [Michaels has had a diverse career, which includes music that crossed over to contemporary country c...
BRET MICHAELS I feel like Nashville has really embraced me with open arms. I was a little worried at first; you kn...
CASSADEE POPE But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER I played on three of Bob Dylan's albums. I have very pleasant memories, especially the Nashville Sky...
CHARLIE DANIELS I love everybody in Nashville. I love the music that's coming out of that place, and I really do bel...
BIG KENNY
The last thing I wanted to do was mimic him. I wanted to get his essence. It was the hardest thing I... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part ...
JIM VARNEY Our business is based in Nashville, and it always will be, but New York City is still our No. 1 or N...
KIX BROOKS
I think about me and my dad taking a road trip from Phoenix to Nashville when I was 19. He's no ... DIERKS BENTLEY When you go to Nashville, you know that's the home of country music. New York needed to step up to t...
DEBRA HARRIS I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that thi...
PATRICK CHAN Nashville was one of those teams that was really suffering financially under the old system.
ANDY BERNSTEIN When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So...
MARY POPE OSBORNE What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was...
LAURA BELL BUNDY
I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer. MITT ROMNEY
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER
One of the reasons I chose Tufts is that they have one of the best veterinary schools in the country... TRACY CHAPMAN I don't think it ever got to the point where I was worried about not being here for the start of tra...
ADAM HALL The reason I agreed to go to Indonesia because at one time it was a socialist country for one year-t...
ROBERT JENKINS Trent was a complete gentleman and waited patiently for me to speak with him. When he did get his ch...
DOUG HOWARD
When I came here, Sunset Boulevard was in the country. It was not even asphalted when I came here in... BILLY WILDER Nashville was a tough call. I've always wanted to work in this district. I knew an opportunity would...
CHRIS WOOD
Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA
When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing w... LENNY KRAVITZ I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON
I was born in a blender. LORNA LUFT
I was born 'neath a clouded star. JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER
I was born to be funny. BUDDY HACKETT
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every da...
ERIC CHURCH In New Orleans, bounce music was prevalent. That was all they wanted to hear. It was new and trendy,...
MYSTIKAL I love Nashville. I was down there recently, and I was talking to all the cab drivers, they're all s...
ARTHUR GODFREY
I was born in India - but never really lived there. AASIF MANDVI That was one of the huge reasons I wanted to work for him. He was provocative and right out in front...
CATHERINE MUNSON Why did you marry Dad, Mom?"
My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <...
MARGARET MCMULLAN It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated ...
DAVE HAYWOOD
Nashville was so great in welcoming me to CMA Music Festival last year, and I am so excited to be co... CARRIE UNDERWOOD I enlisted in the Air Corps, and I was doing what I wanted to do to help the country.
LIONEL GREENBERG
The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG
The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ... CHRISTINA ENGELA
I consider the recording studio where I was born. JIMMY IOVINE The last time I saw Don was last June at a Mayberry Reunion in Nashville.
MAGGIE PETERSON If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh...
DARIUS RUCKER Just because I’ve been gone from this country for most of my life doesn’t mean I understand it a...
FIONA ZEDDE When I decided to go to art school, it wasn't necessarily something I thought I needed. No one t...
MICKALENE THOMAS I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted ...
MELANIE LAURENT I was told 'no' a lot when I first got to Nashville, but I'm pretty stubborn! That's...
DUSTIN LYNCH I was forced to come into politics because Saakashvili had destroyed the opposition. I had a choice ...
BIDZINA IVANISHVILI This was something Dan wanted to do. He was adamant about going back to Iraq after being in Kosovo. ...
BRIAN REIMERS The great thing about the show is that it spawned all these other areas. When we opened the show in ...
JEANIE LINDERS
There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really want... WHOOPI GOLDBERG
When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country musi... DIERKS BENTLEY
There used to be a strong belief that if you wanted to know what was really going on in a country, t... MICHAEL KORDA
Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug. GAYLE FORMAN It seemed like the only thing to do was to crank the volume of my tape of British music in protest. ...
JOE PERNICE I just wanted to do a music show, with the whole realm of music from Ella Fitzgerald to rock bands l...
GLEN CAMPBELL I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a c...
CARLENE CARTER
My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you li... LUKE BRYAN I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. T...
DARBY STANCHFIELD I was born and raised in the Northeast, and country music oftentimes is attached to a stereotype, an...
PETE FISHER
I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me ... CHRIS COLFER I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio, ... Country music is supposed to have steel and f...
GRETCHEN WILSON
Ip Man was an extraordinary man who lived during extraordinary times. He was born to a rich family w... WONG KAR-WAI One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the oppor...
JADA PINKETT SMITH When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn'...
CARLENE CARTER The great thing about Nashville back in the day was that the old guys hung out where the young guys ...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out...
IRIS CHANG
