The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.