Chris Lane Quotes

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

Playing at the Opry, for me, it has such a history. It feels sort of like a coming-out party as a country artist. To know your heroes have played here is kind of crazy.

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.

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

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.

Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring.

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

The first time I remember going to Nashville was in 1971 back when 'Snowbird' was a hit and I performed at the Grand Ole Opry.

I've played the Opry before.

I remember as a little kid watching the Opry from the nosebleeds, so to stand onstage and be invited to be a member was really, really cool.

Walking into the Ryman with Lester Flatt was the equivalent of walking into the Vatican with the pope.

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.

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.

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

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the radio in the car.

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

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

I remember always looking forward to listening to country music in the car with my mother, and it wasn't even something I enjoyed in the sense of music, but just being around music itself was enough.

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