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

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

I try to keep my feet on the ground. Even though I appreciate the fame and adoration, I remember once I used to pick cotton, and I felt like even then I was somebody. I have the same feet, hands and heart like everyone else. I'm just also blessed with a good voice.

Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.

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.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

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