Charley Pride Quotes
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In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
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Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
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After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.
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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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There were very few black people in Montana but we never felt out of place.
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Johnny Duncan was one of the first opening acts I hired for my show, and he is the one who initiated me into astrology. I got hooked. It made a lot of sense to me.
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There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.
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No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.
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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.
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I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.
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I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
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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.
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Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
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I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
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If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.
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Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.
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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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I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.
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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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I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.
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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.
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Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
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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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Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
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People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.
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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.
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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.
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There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.
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I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.
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How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he?
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