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

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.
Charley Pride

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
Charley Pride

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

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.
Charley Pride

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
Charley Pride

Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
Charley Pride

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
Charley Pride

I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
Charley Pride

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
Charley Pride


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

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
Charley Pride

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
Charley Pride

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
Charley Pride

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
Charley Pride

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

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.
Charley Pride

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.
Charley Pride

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
Charley Pride

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
Charley Pride