Maren Morris Quotes

I was not ready fresh out of high school to hit the streets of Nashville.

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

Everybody always thinks you have to move out of the city and go where the music industry is, but it's possible in Louisville, and it's possible anywhere. You just have to believe.

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

Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

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

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

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.

I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

I feel like 'Nashville' can go on indefinitely.

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

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

When I left college, it broke my mom's heart, but I knew I had to be in Nashville. I knew that was the place you had to be in to become a better songwriter, and that's what I wanted to move there for and to ultimately get a record deal.

In the music business, we're much better off staying in Bath - we don't get involved in the competitiveness, where you've got to be seen in the right places and music kind of takes second place.

Nobody is going to hand you a music career.

It's easy to get squashed down in this business, for sure. Nashville can definitely train you to not get too excited.

... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.

I still consider myself working in Nashville. I visit Hollywood.

There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.

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.

I wasn't sure what would happen to me after 'The Voice.' I was just excited to make music.

I came to Nashville in the early '90s, and I thought, 'OK, enough is enough. I write songs; I just don't have the backbone to show it to anybody. I want to go to Nashville and learn how to properly write a song.'

I was a business major, but the more I played music and the more I got into songwriting, I realized this is what I loved, but I kept asking myself, 'Is this what I'm supposed to do - move to Nashville?'

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