Don McLean Quotes

Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last few years, Georgia has definitely kind of risen to the top as far as the crop of young artists coming out of this area that are kind of making waves, you know?

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.

The thing about Nashville that's amazing is everyone plays... so you don't meet up for a drink, you meet up for a pick. It's an incredibly creative town, just bubbling with energy.

I fell in love with Nashville and wrote with some of the best songwriters here.

In Nashville, good guitar players are a dime a dozen.

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 the kind of music I like.

I wanted to live in Nashville. I wanted to sing country.

Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

There's nothing like Nashville for making records.

There is nothing else to do in Nashville except for write songs.

I feel like 'Nashville' can go on indefinitely.

I lived in Nashville for about five years. It was almost like me going to college for my craft. I immersed myself in the songwriting community there. They embraced me, and I made some real friends but also learned so much.

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

Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in terms of a music scene. So we had that factor of being a new discovery.

Honestly, with pop and rock and things, artists are from all over the place, so they're kind of isolated. The city of Nashville helps create the camaraderie. Everyone moves there for the same reason.

Be in Nashville if you want to be in country music, because everybody that can help you is here.

Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.

Nashville's been like my second home.

Atlanta is just different. It's the music city.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

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 did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out with.