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I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her.
I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.
People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.
Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.
Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.
Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
My brothers and sisters all sang, too, and they all have good voices.
Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.
I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.
Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.
There were very few black people in Montana but we never felt out of place.
It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.
Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.
Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.
I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.
I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.
It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.
Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for 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.
Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
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.
How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he?
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.
A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.
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.
Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.
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.
I believe it is possible to tell what sign some people were born under by watching their eyes, watching how they walk, how they talk.
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.
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.
A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.