Taylor Swift thinks Nashville has a unique music community.
The 36-year-old singer moved to Nashville, Tennessee, as a child in order to pursue her ambitions to become a country star, and Taylor paid homage to the city after being inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame on Monday (26.10.26).
During her acceptance speech, Taylor explained: “I think you truly learn a craft when you do it over and over and over. And that is what the magnificent songwriters that work in this amazing town do.”
Taylor observed that Nashville is a unique community for musicians.
The award-winning star – who is one of the best-selling music artists of all time – said: “There is no music community like this music community. I know, I checked all the communities.”
Taylor also credited the Nashville community for teaching her some important life lessons.
She quipped: “I learned how to accommodate when your co-writer has a hangover, or when they’re going to need to talk about their divorce for a really long time before we write anything.”
Taylor previously explained how Faith Hill and Shania Twain influenced her move to Nashville.
The singer told Time magazine: “I was obsessed with watching biography TV shows about Faith Hill and Shania Twain, and I noticed that both of them went to Nashville to start their careers. From that point on, I began relentlessly nagging, begging, and pleading with my parents to take me on a trip there.
“When I was 11, my mom took my brother and me to Nashville on spring break and we drove up and down Music Row. She would wait in the car as I scampered into record labels one by one, handing my demo CD to the receptionists. I remember thinking it was so odd and wonderful that all of these important record labels were all on one street, most of them in small buildings and old houses.
“I remember being charmed by how kind people were to strangers and newcomers like us. We took more and more trips to Nashville as time went by, and when at 13, I was offered a development deal by a major record label, my parents gave in and we moved from Pennsylvania.”
