Stephen Rodrick Quotes

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.

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

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.

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

I think it's a natural fit, major league baseball and country music.

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

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

I love the show 'Nashville,' I mean, that's a show that's pretty incredible.

If you went to school in Nashville, you were aware of all those '60s rockabilly people.

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

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

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.

The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.

For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

I feel like 'Nashville' can go on indefinitely.

I still consider myself working in Nashville. I visit Hollywood.

There was a junk store in Nashville on 8th Avenue, where I bought Patsy Cline's train case for $75.

The Ryman and the Grand Ole Opry, if you're a Southern boy, is just a way of life.

I visited Minnie Pearl's home down in Nashville, and I liked it so much I asked the same man to help fix up my place.

You don't meet too many actors in Nashville.

When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first grader, I was gonna be a guitar picker on the 'Grand Ole Opry.' I just had it in my head that that's what I wanted to do, having no idea how it was done.

Sun Studios was where so much of American music exploded from.

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