Country Quote by Walker Hayes

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate…

— Loretta Lynn

Country music was a part of my life. Now it isn't. We had a good relationship, really, but we wanted each other at arm's…

— K. D. Lang

... 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

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and…

— Keith Urban

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville,…

— Lee Ann Womack

I cut all my early records in Nashville, so I guess that makes me country. I call it country pop, but my love of…

— J. J. Cale

I'll tell you, Nashville ruined country music.

— Hank Williams III

I didn't come to Nashville to put on a cowboy hat and pretend to be a country singer. My attraction to Nashville as Music…

— John Oates

I'm not a big country guy even though I'm from Nashville. I like some songs, but I wouldn't turn on a country radio station…

— Mookie Betts

One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to…

— Callie Khouri

We work so hard to stay true to country music. People can say they don't like it, but they can't say it's not country.

— Darius Rucker

When I came to Nashville, I was sort of experimenting with a new identity, experimenting with the country world and country writers. I realized…

— Chris Carmack