Quotes About Opry

That's where I fell in love with country music, there at the Opry with Dad by my side.

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.

The irony of Hank Williams' relationship with the Opry is that some Opry stars were on the show for forty, fifty, or even sixty years, but Hank Williams remains the star associated in most people's minds with the Grand Ole Opry, despite the fact that he was on the show for only three years.

The hokiness, in which the Opry took a great deal of inverted pride, disguised ruthlessly aggressive management and shrewd organization.

The Grand Ole Opry formally hired Hank on Monday, July 11, 1949

By the middle forties, the Grand Ole Opry was the dominant force in country music in the nation.

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