Welcome to Tennessee, patron state of shootin' stuff.

Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.

— Marty Stuart

Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . . . to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams.

— Rosemary Daniell

If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would…

— Hank Williams, Jr

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer,…

— Kenneth G. Wilson

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with…

— Jacki Weaver

I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are…

— Phil Roe

I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know…

— Tim McGraw

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

— Gil Scott-Heron

In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until…

— Sandra Steingraber

I love Tennessee Williams; as a playwright, he's so poetic.

— Matthew Bourne

I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's…

— Valerie June

If Vice President Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. had won his home state of Tennessee on November 7, 2000, he would have become president of…

— Scott Bessent

I remember every player-every single one-who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually…

— Pat Summitt

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were…

— Tim McGraw

I feel one of the most significant honors a player can have in his sport is to have his number retired. Certainly for me…

— Peyton Manning