Music Hub Quotes

It's like Liverpool. Everybody went for the music. All the young musicians seemed to gravitate to Asbury Park.

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

I was really interested in how a health care center could also be a center for the arts and for music, and for bringing together sort of the isolated elements of the community.

I was the guy who didn't get a cool little apartment. I took one for the team. I liked having the place we could make noise in, the place that could be the center of the music. I sat down and calculated it one day, and over the years, I've had something like 38 roommates.

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

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.

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.

New Orleans is a glorious mutation

It's always very special for me to work Chicago. Both of the record companies I was with, early on, were based in Chicago. The music was always huge there.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.

It's a great meeting place, community center, art gallery, singles bar, music venue. The record store really covers a lot of ground.

Atlanta, to me, has the sauce as far as urban music is concerned.

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

Philly's busy enough. There are tons of record stores and record-head friends and plenty of D.I.Y. shows. It's a place where people pass through and bands don't usually skip on tour. There are lots of music resources, but it's not too over the top.

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?

Any piece of music or album or anything - I don't care what genre - in the States, a piece of it came through Atlanta somehow.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

I feel like Houston is one of the leading things in music culture. Everyone loves the Houston culture. It needs to have its own monument, its own moment for artists like me, artists like Beyonce who set it off.

I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited.