Quotes tagged ‘Nashville’

“Tornadoes ripped across Tennessee early Tuesday, shredding at least 40 buildings and killing at least 19 people. One of the twisters caused severe damage across downtown Nashville, destroying the stained glass in a historic church and leaving hundreds of people homeless.”

— Travis Loller, apnews.com

“Charlie Haggers: You really planning to sell that fella's song for him in Nashville? Loretta Haggers: Yeah, I got to, y'know, I gave him my word. Charlie Haggers: That's a terrible song! And after what he had in mind to do to you. Loretta Haggers: Oh, honey, both he and his song are just sickeningly…”

— Ann Marcus, Jerry Adelman, Loretta Haggers, Mary Kay Place, imdb.com

“When we reached Nashville, a number of policemen were lined up on both sides of the hallway down which I had to pass on my way to the captain's office. They tossed me from one to another like a volleyball. By the time I reached the office, the lining of my best coat was torn, and I was considerably…”

— Bayard Rustin, explorepahistory.com

“A guy named Ben Dorsey used to work for Johnny Cash, and he had a bunch of suits that Johnny had given him. He was walking down the street in Nashville in front of the Grand Ole Opry, and this guy came up with a guitar in his hand and thought Ben was one of the stars because he had on Cash's suit. H…”

— Willie Nelson, esquire.com

“A song is a short story. It might have been my buddy Harlan Howard, a writer I met in Nashville in the sixties, who first said a song ain't nothing but three chords and the truth. Well, songs come easy to me. I've written hundreds of them. I see them as little stories that fall out of our lives and…”

— Willie Nelson, npr.org

“When I left Nashville I went to Texas because that's where I came from, and because I was playing in Texas a lot in different places. And I saw hippies and rednecks drinking beer together and smoking dope together and having a good time together and I knew it was possible to get all groups of people…”

— Willie Nelson, en.wikiquote.org

“I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me....Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen….I could swear they were keeping me…”

— Willie Nelson, en.wikiquote.org

“Like, you can’t go to brunch in most areas without running into a gaggle of women in matching outfits.”

— Nashville Resident, buzzfeed.com

“For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark.”

— Bettie Page, independent.co.uk

“All I ever wanted was a mother who paid attention to me. She didn't want girls. She thought we were trouble. She didn't help with homework or teach me to sew or cook. She didn't go to the school plays I was in or go to my high school graduation. When I started menstruating at 13, I thought I was dyi…”

— Pierre Perrone, independent.co.uk