I believe it is possible to tell what sign some people were born under by watching their eyes, watching how they walk, how they talk.

I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

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.

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

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.