Death Quote by Michael Kosser

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

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

— Alan Jackson

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

— Maren Morris

Longevity always come from lyricism. From the people who can actually rap.

— Cordae

That's why we do this. In country music, we do this for this very reason... to impact people lyrically, to be a part of…

— Brad Paisley

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers…

— Dinah Shore

When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It's a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music becomes a…

— Hiromi Uehara

There's not much longevity in music today. It's so easy to go in, put some pretentious lyrics on, with people saying the same thing…

— Patti LaBelle

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the…

— Hunter Hayes

I feel like, genre-wise, the walls are coming down in Nashville. There are so many writers who have moved to town from all walks…

— Maren Morris

... my songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the…

— Neil Young

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

— Brett Young