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Chip Esten Quotes

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

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

Chip Esten
Country, Dad, Long

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

Chip Esten
Country, Song, Heart
"Interview: Charles Esten of “Nashville” says why he’s fighting for Deacon’s sobriety". Interview with Liane Bonin Starr, uproxx.com. February 6, 2013.

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

Chip Esten
Song, Scene, Parallels
"Interview: Charles Esten of “Nashville” says why he’s fighting for Deacon’s sobriety". Interview with Liane Bonin Starr, uproxx.com. February 6, 2013.

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

Chip Esten
Song, Clever, Writing

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
Writing, Nashville, Hands

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