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I'm a Kansan by residence, a Missourian by employment, a Louisianan by birth, Southern by the grace of God, and a Tybee Islander at heart.
Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.
I'm from Texas. You would think my biggest draw would be in that state. But my biggest draw is Pennsylvania.
both the American and Texas State
The Southern heart is too impulsive; Southern hospitality is too lavish with the stranger.
- The Spirit of Tennessee Journalism
Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.
I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.
We of the South,
When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
Massachusetts, which is hard to spell, it is hard not to
In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.
On 'Justified', we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.
My album was recorded in Nashville. It used to be all about "We're from Texas, forget Nashville," well you'll never hear me say that. Nashville isn't bad as long as you're true to yourself.
They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.
Jesus, Georgia. I'm going to fucking come before I'm even inside you.
Texas is where I found my musical self.
I love Nashville, and I love the South, but on a professional level, I had started feeling smothered by the Nashville way of doing things.
I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city of Nashville now. I'm looking for a place out here to live.
They travel through the heartland, past cold factories and drifty towns, to the old, old mountains slumbering east of Tennessee.
God has brought me to Kentucky ... the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.
I'm from Louisiana and live in Texas now.
In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
I have a tattoo that I got in Memphis, and another I got in Dayton.
I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.
Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
I'm in Alabama. First thing I want to say is Roll Tide! I was at the Alabama/Georgia game last year sitting right in the middle of the Alabama section and saw that they rolled all over them!
I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.
I love North Carolina.
You know, I love the South.
Memphis can be thought of connected as much to Mississippi and Arkansas as it is to Tennessee, if not more so. William Faulkner once observed that Mississippi extends from a Memphis hotel room to the Gulf of Mexico.
My publishing deal is out of Nashville, my management is split between Nashville and Texas, but we are also getting to play eight other states as well as Canada and Europe this year. I don't want to pigeon-hole myself. When people ask me if I'm Texas or Nashville, I tell them I am just Cody Johnson.
I fell in love with Nashville. I got lots of work.
God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career.
California: The west coast of Iowa.
I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it
was upon a hill.
I'm really looking forward to embracing some of the great traditions at the University of Tennessee, for instance the Vol Walk, running through the T, singing Rocky Top all night long after we beat Florida next year. It will be a blast
I'm a Texas girl, with a California soul.
I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.
Louisville, an hour after dark, is a carpet of gilt thumbtacks below them, with straight, twinkling lines like strings of beads leading out from it. Southeastward now, toward the Tennessee state-line. ("Jane Brown's Body")
I'm a southern gentleman.
That's Kansas. Or Missouri. One of those corn states.
Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.
I am proud to be a Southerner.
What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.
Arkansas is really, really nice. It's got the nature feel.
Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.
In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.
Kentucky wants to occupy some clock
I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
HI. I'm from Arkansas, the cantaloupe state. And tonight, I hope you will hold my melons close to your heart and vote me your Miss Teen Dream.
on the outskirts of Johnson
I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
A state that houses the NCAA headquarters. Quite frankly, if Indiana doesn't say that they're going to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, the NCAA needs to move out of Indiana.
Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.
Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst.
You mean in the state?State-- Abe Lemons
Another Country,
Nincompoops. (Quincy,
We in the Great White North but you can bite my White South!
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NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT
I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.
Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.
Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then turn around and come out with 'Feels So Right.' Go out and have fun and be those guys that like to party, then turn around and make every woman in America want Randy Owen.
California, the department store state.
Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.
Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!
I'm from the Midwest.
The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance ... living on the memory of crushing defeats
A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every roadhouse in the South, soaking in all of that ... Nashville is like a second home to me, and I'm just gravitating toward the songs.
The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'
There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky!
If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.
I'm a real big country boy.
State and home country, there's a difference
Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.
We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy.
There's America, there's the South, and then there's Mississippi.
I lived in Texas for 10 years.
I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.
If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.
It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.
Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.
I have to go back home for a while." "Ohio?" "Omaha." "Right. Omaha. Why?
There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America,
Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.
I'm a country guy from Mississippi who keeps it simple.
Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.
Where I'm from? A little town called none of yo god damn business.
We have been so pleased with the response to our unique schools in the Nashville area, and we are confident that other areas will embrace our concept, as well.
I loved Nashville. I was amazed by the whole place.
By now everyone knows that I picked Kentucky, and I am definitely happy with my decision and that it's all finally over.
You're easy to think about, Georgia.
I'm a big country fan.
A little bit South you've got Macon, Georgia - home of the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band and Capricorn Records. And off to west you've got Delta blues. Sprinkle Southern gospel over the top of that, and you're talking about where I came from. I loved all of that music.
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.