Cleveland Quote by Robert Pollard

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina.

— Earl Scruggs

The music I make is for the inner city.

— Goldie

The people playing on these songs are from Wisconsin and Illinois and Chicago and St. Louis and there’s a certain attitude that comes across…

— Pokey LaFarge

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about…

— Otis Blackwell

Up north, you could find these radio stations with no name on the dials that played pre-rock 'n' roll things - country blues. We…

— Bob Dylan

I grew up right in the heart of Treme, so it was a real music neighborhood, and there was a bunch of bands like…

— Trombone Shorty

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

— Hunter Hayes

This is really my forte, country music.

— Porter Wagoner

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

— Gavin DeGraw

Like a lot of young people growing up in the middle of nowhere, I was desperate to leave my small town behind, but music…

— KT Tunstall

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

— Neil Diamond

When we recorded 'Iowa,' we jammed, we went through the songs, we played as a band and we recorded as a band.

— Jim Root