Quotes About The Opry

#1. I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.

Zell Miller

#2. Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.

Joe Nichols

#3. I hate to say stuff like this because everyone dreams about playing The Opry, everyone dreams about playing Gruene Hall, but I've always tried to not concentrate too hard on where I want to go because I know if I put too much stock into it, it would be pretty disappointing if I never got there.

Cody Johnson

#4. The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don't just play the Opry; you live it.

Bill Anderson

#5. There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

Charley Pride

#6. 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.

Dierks Bentley

#7. I would have to say I've been on the 'Opry' at least 30-35-40 times a year for ... 51-52 years.

Jim Ed Brown

#8. 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

#9. I'm just another Opry entertainer. I'm not the start of the Opry, and I'm not the ending. I'm not the Alpha, and I'm not the Omega. It's been a pleasure taking part in the Opry and country music these many years. I'm part of a big operation.

Roy Acuff

#10. It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

Martina Mcbride

#11. I take his talent and his passion with me - to the stage of the Opry, to the podium at the CMA Awards, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, into my own living room. I am the realization of my grandfather's dream. I am a player.

Brad Paisley

#12. I get the same feeling walking into the Opry House as I do when I see one of my heroes.

Blake Shelton

#13. I've gotten to go to the Opry a couple of times and stand backstage and watch. But I made it a point not to take a tour or stand in the circle until music took me there. I told myself that was one place I'd never go unless music took me there.

Dustin Lynch

#14. Playing the Opry, when I get the opportunity - it's one of the coolest honors for any musician in any genre, but especially for a country musician.

Charlie Worsham

#15. No matter what does, or doesn't, happen for me in the music industry, getting to play the Opry as a kid was always be a highlight of mine.

Charlie Worsham

#16. When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

Dierks Bentley

#17. There's so many great things that happened at the Grand Ole Opry in 50 years. You get the chance to go out and visit with your peers. You get a chance to sing your song and say hello to so many friends and neighbors and all that you have. It's just - well, it's a second home.

Jim Ed Brown

#18. The Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players

Jimi Hendrix

#19. I called my mom, and I was so excited. I was telling her, 'I'm going to be on the Grand Ole Opry! This is crazy!' And she told me, 'Watch out for Jimmy Dickens, because he likes the pretty girls.

Carrie Underwood

#20. I feel this is a family here, so kinda regardless of whatever happens in your life, you always can come home to the Grand Ole Opry, thank God.

Ronnie Milsap

#21. Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.

Patsy Cline

#22. My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always were a lot of guitarists around.

Lenny Breau

#23. If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.

Hank Williams Jr.

#24. What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.

Laura Bell Bundy

#25. Jimmy Dickens was the essence of country music and the heart of the Grand Ole Opry.

Connie Smith

#26. 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.

Lionel Richie

#27. My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.

Lionel Richie

#28. Pilgrims travel to Jerusalem to see the Holy Land, and the foundations of their faith. People go to Washington, D.C. to see the workings of government, and the foundation of our country. And fans flock to Nashville to see the foundation of country music, the Grand Ole Opry.

Brad Paisley

#29. I came out the back of the building and I was hollering, 'I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry! I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry!'

Loretta Lynn

#30. As a country singer, there is only one place you dream of playing in your lifetime, and that is the Grand Ole Opry House.

Blake Shelton

#31. The only music we ever listened to out in the piney woods was Roy Acuff and the Grand Ole Opry. That was the only night of the week I was allowed to lay in the middle of the bed with Mama and Daddy, just long enough to hear Roy Acuff sing; then I had to go back to bed.

George Jones

#32. The Grand Ole Opry is an artist, and I am proud to be one of its songs.

Blake Shelton