Opry Quotes

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge. (Charley Pride)
Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show. View quote
Dierks Bentley
What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was Hee Haw, was 360 degrees of entertainment. View quote
Laura Bell Bundy
You can knock me down, but you better have a big rock to put me there... It's been tough, but that's alright. I am the oldest of ten kids and I am a survivor. I love this business so much, that there's no way I could think of retiring. When I'm 87, I'll still be walking on the Grand Ole Opry and singing "Here comes more tears to cry...". I still don't feel that I have the biggest record yet, or sang it the best. I think the best is yet to come, and that's the truth! View quote
Dottie West
Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry. View quote
Patsy Cline
Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, I got on my knees and told her that I was going to marry her some day. We were both married to someone else at the time. ‘Ring Of Fire'-June and Merle Kilgore wrote that song for me-that's the way our love affair was. We fell madly in love and we worked together all the time, toured together all the time, and when the tour was over we both had to go home to other people. It hurt. View quote
Johnny Cash
When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music. View quote
Dierks Bentley
Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me. View quote
Joe Nichols
It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry. View quote
Martina McBride
I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy. View quote
Rachel Boston
Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change. (Steven Curtis Chapman)
My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry. View quote
Lionel Richie
I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was. View quote
Lionel Richie