Jessie Baylin Quotes

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.

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.

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 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.

Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

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

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

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?

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.

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 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.

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.

The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.

You can't live in Austin and escape the music.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

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

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

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

Nashville's been like my second home.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

Australia is so entrenched in rock n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.

On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.

Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.