I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

There were very few black people in Montana but we never felt out of place.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.