I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

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

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

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

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

People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.