What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
Charley Pride

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

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
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

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

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.
Charley Pride

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