Community Quote by Maren Morris

In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.

— Brett Young

I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville - sometimes it comes to me that way.

— Maren Morris

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

— Alan Jackson

I had no idea when I moved to Nashville people just were songwriters. I had no idea. So I guess I was selling myself…

— Ashley Monroe

I knew I would always be an artist, but when you move to Nashville, this is a writer's town. I moved here to focus…

— Brett Young

Man, I live in Nashville. I know how good other songwriters and singers are around here. There's a wealth of talent in this town,…

— Jamey Johnson

I wanted to become a better songwriter, so it seemed like a no-brainer to move to Nashville, where some of the best writers in…

— Maren Morris

I didn't really know you could make a living in songwriting. I was just very fortunate to have the opportunity to play a few…

— Sam Hunt

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…

— Garth Brooks

A lot of time, if you spend too much time in Nashville, songwriters get caught up in charts and numbers and the music business…

— Mary Gauthier

I didn't move to Nashville with any inkling or dreams of getting a record deal. I didn't have those stars in my eyes. I…

— Maren Morris

... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are…

— Sandra Bernhard