Charley Pride Quotes

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

Dreams, Thought, Strange

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.
Charley Pride

Music, Country, Public

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

Good, Rock, Happen

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
Charley Pride

Music, Country, Company

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

Girl, Black, Trouble

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

Wish, Happens, Hug

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

Experience, Fans, Adoration

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

Best, Guitar, Player

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

Good, Eyes, Pretty

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

Seriously, Taken, Fans

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

Advice, Fans, Praise

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

Experience, Confidence, Single

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

Religion, God, Care

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

Dad, Father, Him

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

Pretty, Guitar, Learned

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

Music, Country, Enough

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

Help, Young, Started

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

Artist, Except, Records

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

Music, Country, Everyone

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

Music, Another, Voice

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

Once, Name, Known

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

Experience, Performing, Humbling

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
Charley Pride

Same, Old, Television

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.
Charley Pride

Money, Job, Thought

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.
Charley Pride

Time, Attitude, Thinking

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Nationality: American

Born: March 18, 1938

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