There's nothing like Nashville for making records.

- Carol Channing

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.

- Dustin Lynch

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

- Don McLean

Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.

- Dan Hill

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

- Chip Esten

Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.

- Caleb Johnson

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

- Crystal Gayle

I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about.

- Charlie Daniels

I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.

- Caitlin Rose

I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.

- Caitlin Rose

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

- Afrojack

I went to L.A. to be Brad Pitt; now I just want to be Gene Hackman. I came to Nashville to be Kenny Chesney. I'd be very fortunate to be George Strait.

- Christian Kane

Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.

- Callie Khouri

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

I think Nashville could use some better shopping!

- Carrie Underwood

'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

- Brenda Lee

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

- Benmont Tench

One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.

- Blake Shelton

I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.

- Blake Shelton

I had no idea when I moved to Nashville people just were songwriters. I had no idea. So I guess I was selling myself as a singer when I first moved here. But then right after I first moved, I started writing a lot.

- Ashley Monroe