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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.

— Valerie June

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.

— Lindsay Hartley

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

— Cy Coleman

I always intended to move back to New York when I was first there.

— Martin Henderson

My father's in the military, so we moved a lot. I was born in Jersey but grew up in Maryland until we moved to L.A. to pursue my acting career. Music came into it after that.

— Christina Milian

I started playing guitar, like, when I was 17 or so, but where I'm from, you just don't hear about people moving to Nashville and making it. It was such a foreign thing to me. I never knew music was an option for me.

— Kip Moore

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

— Taylor Swift

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

— Don McLean

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.

— Sam Hunt

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

— Hunter Hayes

I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.

— Blake Shelton