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Charley Pride
American
Athlete
About the author
I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Pretty
#Guitar
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,
American
Athlete
#Time
#Thinking
#Attitude
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#People
#Thought
#Childhood
I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Help
#Artists
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Years
#Artist
It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#World
#Country
#Music
#Country music
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,
American
Athlete
#Now
#Pretty
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,
American
Athlete
#Music
#Voice
Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Name
#Politicians
Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Experience
Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#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,
American
Athlete
#Thought
#Money
#Singing
#Job
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Father
There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Being
#Thought
#Republican
There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Theater
#Intimacy
Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Business
#Beliefs
#Religious
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,
American
Athlete
#Country
#Influence
#Television
#Music
#Country music
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#People
#Country
#Act
#Pride
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.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Old
#Artist
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Fans
#Country
#Music
#Company
#Country music
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,
American
Athlete
#Public
#Country
#Criticism
#Music
#Country music
I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Country
#Music
#Country music
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Trouble
#Man
#Singing
#Potential
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,
American
Athlete
#Will
#World
Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Fans
#Experience
Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Guitar
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,
American
Athlete
#Now
#Eyes
Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Fans
Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
Charley Pride,
American
Athlete
#Fans
#Will
#Advice
#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,
American
Athlete
#Experience
#Self
#Confidence
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,
American
Athlete
#God
#Religion
#Care