Dustin Lynch Quotes

I don't remember ever not wanting to be a country singer. Even as a little kid, that was my dream.

If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years.

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

I had no idea when I moved to Nashville people just were songwriters. I had no idea. So I guess I was selling myself as a singer when I first moved here. But then right after I first moved, I started writing a lot.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a country music singer, but I never dreamed I'd be a member of the Grand Ole Opry.

I thought, when I came to Nashville, I was going to hook up with some of the top country writers in town and write some country tunes.

When I started out, I was what they called corny. After a week in Nashville they were calling me hillbilly.

Carrie Underwood was just a small-town Oklahoma girl with big dreams in 2005 when she competed on the fourth season of 'American Idol.' She is one of the few true 'American Idol' success stories and went on to have incredible career success.

When I was growing up, Nashville was the place to go if you had songs to sell and thought you had talent and wanted to tour and be on Grand Ole Opry [radio show]. It was the big deal back in those days to play the Grand Ole Opry. And you could travel around the world saying, "Hi, I'm Willie from the Grand Ole Opry".

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.

I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

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, not to mention the people who shoot in for a week or two to try their hand on lower Broad or the other venues around town.

I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid.

What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting.

One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.

I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

One of the great reasons to be in Nashville is, you get guys like Shane McAnally to write songs with.

I was writing and playing in California for 11 years before I moved to Nashville.

Most of the time in Nashville, you're so replaceable. Anybody can get another nice-looking guy to sing a country song.