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There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them. — Charley Pride

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

Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around. — Chet Atkins

I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later. — David A. Adler

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins

My guilty pleasure is 'Britain's Next Top Model'. — April Pearson

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion. — Brenda Lee

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'. — Chet Atkins

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre. — Chet Atkins

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that. — Chet Atkins

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research. — Chet Atkins

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them. — Herman Melville

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it. — Chet Atkins

Depression is sadness gone wrong — Lewis Wolpert

You want a little talent on that? — Chet Atkins

Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me. — Paige Bradley

Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business. — Chet Atkins

Birth isn't something we suffer but something we actively do and exult in! — Sheila Kitzinger

There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players. — Lee Ann Womack

I'll stick to finding the funny in the ordinary because my life is pretty ordinary and so are the lives of my friends - and my friends are hilarious. — Issa Rae

You shape your own destiny. — Chet Atkins

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too. — Chet Atkins

I'll always be poor in my mind. — Chet Atkins

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins. — Suzy Bogguss

Give to these children, new from the world,
Rest far from men.
Is anything better, anything better?
Tell us it then ... — William Butler Yeats

So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits. — Kathy Griffin

I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself - Who are they then? — Bob DeMarco

It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care. — Chet Atkins

Every generation blames the generation before them. — Mutabaruka