Quotes by Chet Atkins

• Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
• I'll always be poor in my mind.
• If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.
• Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
• Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.
• Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
• 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.
• You shape your own destiny.