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“I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, I was hungry. And I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me: 'Hey, whatcha readin' for?' Isn't that the weirdest fuckin' question you've ever heard? Not what am I reading, but what am I reading FOR? Well, goddamnit, ya stumped me! Why do I read? Well . . . hmmm...I dunno...I guess I read for a lot of reasons and the main one is so I don't end up being a fuckin' waffle waitress.”
― Bill Hicks

“Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.”
― Hunter S. Jones, Fortune Calling

“Funny how often something she'd been so certain she needed turned out not to be a need at all, but a want--when the real 'need' was something else entirely. Something that could only be gained by giving, not by getting.”
― Tamera Alexander, A Beauty So Rare

“It’s not our job to make people like us if they don’t want to. It’s not our job to change people. That’s beyond our control. But what you CAN control is how you respond to it.”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift - Guitar Chord Songbook

“All roads are tough, but you have to choose the one you know you'll never be sorry for taking.”
― Chris Burkmenn

“They only want to be there while you’re on top, and when you haven’t gotten a gig in a while and you don’t know how you’re going to pay your rent at the end of the month and the glamor they thought they signed up for is gone, they’re walking out the door, leaving you to pick up the pieces.”
― Courtney Giardina, Behind the Strings

“But the crown jewel was the columned Greek Revival mansion, which dated from the mid-1800s, along with the manicured boxwood gardens that would serve as the backdrop for the couple's ceremony.
Of course, everything was not only very traditional but also a standard to what one might imagine an over-the-top Southern wedding to be. As I said, "Steel Magnolias on steroids." The ceremony would take place outdoors in the garden, but large custom peach-and-white scalloped umbrellas were placed throughout the rows of bamboo folding chairs to shade the guests. Magnolia blossoms and vintage lace adorned the ends of the aisles.
White, trellis-covered bars flanked the entrance to the gardens where guests could select from a cucumber cooler or spiked sweet tea to keep cool during the thirty-minute nuptials. It was still considered spring, but like Dallas, Nashville could heat up early in the year, and we were glad to be prepared.
By the time we arrived the tent was well on its way to completion, and rental deliveries were rolling in. The reception structure was located past the gardens near the enormous whitewashed former stable, and inside the ceiling was draped in countless yards of peach fabric with crystal chandeliers hanging above every dining table. Custom napkins with embroidered magnolias on them complemented the centerpieces' peach garden roses, lush greenery, and dried cotton stems. Cedric's carpentry department created floor-to-ceiling lattice walls covered in faux greenery and white wisteria blooms, a dreamy backdrop for the band.”
― Mary Hollis Huddleston, Without a Hitch

“Think of this small book as a passport, a document that details the dogs and people who have traveled far and wide, and somehow, miraculously, found their way back to where they belong - to dog heaven, book heaven, reader heaven. Home.”
― Ann Patchett, The Shop Dogs of Parnassus

“And maybe her eyes still worked regardless of the shape she took, and she could see everything. And maybe somehow she broke through the atmosphere and was sent somewhere out in space where she couldn’t tell if her eyes were opened or closed.”
― J.C. Dorian, You Holy Screaming Symphony

“The sexiest thing about a man is the way he can make a woman smile even when she thinks there is nothing to smile about.”
― Courtney Giardina, Behind the Strings

“Add the shortage of blankets, warm clothing, and vegetables, and the result was likely to be more suffering and more death than had occurred earlier. The war was not over for Hood's army as it came through the gates of Camp Douglas. Another struggle for survival was beginning, and the odds of success were no better in Chicago than at Franklin or Nashville.”
― George Levy, To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas, 1862-65

“Wilson Packard had always thought Hank Barnett would make a fine corpse. He’d thought so since childhood, and it looked like this might finally be the day for it. Maybe not as good as yesterday, but better than tomorrow.”
― Cal Sharp, The Beast From the Back of the Bus: Murder in Music City

“AT&T was on ‘Santa’s 2020 Naughty Listâ€�.”
― Steven Magee

“Not to mention, assuming an owner of a business is a guy is just not my mom’s MO. Long before she dreamed up the idea for Big League Burger and helped build it up to the veritable empire it is today, she was almost too progressive a feminist for a place like Nashville, where she jokingly but not-quite-jokingly would clamp her hands over our ears anytime a line in a country song said something about girls with painted-on jeans or sitting on tailgates, saying it would make us 'the complicit kind of cowgirl.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“When the telephone rang in the middle of the night, I knew.
The Tennessee state trooper on the other end said, "Your sister's been hurt pretty bad."
In my haste to get to Nashville I didn't ask a single question.
There had been a car accident. What else did I need to know?
I'd been dreading a call like that my whole life.”
― Amy Smith Linton

“Stevie splits his time between Branson and Nashville. I think it's smart to divide time by location, rather than AM and PM, because that way you get more distance and are able to extend your life out further.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“Mr. Nuisance jerked, then flashed a look of confusion as if he hadn’t just been the one to proposition her.”
― Joy Avery, Nashville Unforgettable