Esten Quotes

#1. Now that I'm in 'Nashville,' the thing that I'm loving the most is co-writing. You walk into the room and you shake hands with someone you've never met before and you walk out four hours later and you've got this thing ... sharing ideas and everything, it's almost magical, like a miracle.

Chip Esten

#2. When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.

Chip Esten

#3. A good trademark, whether a word mark or a symbol, is devoid of fashion or trend, which makes it potentially iconic if it's seen for long enough in the right places.

Ivan Chermayeff

#4. Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

James Rozoff

#5. The thing about me and books is that whichever one I'm reading always reminds me of whatever's happening in my life during that time.

Lauren Barnholdt

#6. I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or going the acting route. I chose acting, figuring I could always do the music on my own.

Chip Esten

#7. It turned out to be easy to know where he was, even if he didn't know where he was going.

Shukyou

#8. What I found about 'Nashville' coming in is it's about these small performances. It can be on a big stage but detailed, small, heartfelt, real performances from musicians and singers. So if you try to do something bloated or showy, the directors dial us in and let us know.

Chip Esten

#9. Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Zadie Smith

#10. 'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

Chip Esten

#11. Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

Chip Esten

#12. I've documented a lot of things myself as a filmmaker. If you want a rockumentary, that's in there.

M.I.A.

#13. Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.

Chip Esten

#14. Move somewhere with decent public transit so you don't drive drunk and hit somebody.

Greg Gutfeld