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

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.

How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he?

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.