A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.

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

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.

My brothers and sisters all sang, too, and they all have good voices.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

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

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