Chip Esten Quotes - BrainyQuote

American - Comedian Born: September 9, 1965

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.

Walk You Ideas Hands

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.

You Musicians Small Know

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.

Music You My Own College

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

Song Doing Scene Very

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

Song Writing Clever Intelligent

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

Music Heart Country Always

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

Music Car You Long

Loading...

Load more quotes

Related Authors

Steven Wright
Quotes

Groucho Marx
Quotes

George Carlin
Quotes

Rodney Dangerfield
Quotes

Mitch Hedberg
Quotes

Josh Billings
Quotes

Robin Williams
Quotes

W. C. Fields
Quotes

BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote Of The Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

BQ on Instagram

Apps

iPhone/iPad app

Quote Of The Day Feeds

Javascript and RSS feeds

WordPress plugin

Quote of the Day Email

About

Copyright © 2001 - 2019 BrainyQuote