Charley Pride Quotes

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
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Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
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For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
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I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
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I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
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In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
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It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
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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.
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Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
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Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.
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The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
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There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
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Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
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What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
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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.
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When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.
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