Charley Pride

There were very few black people in Montana but we never felt out of place.

— Charley Pride

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

— Charley Pride

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called…

— Charley Pride

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

— Charley Pride

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

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I try to keep my feet on the ground. Even though I appreciate the fame and adoration, I remember once I used…

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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…

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I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.

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

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My brothers and sisters all sang, too, and they all have good voices.

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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…

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

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

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

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I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

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Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.

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As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.

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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.

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Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

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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…

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I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more…

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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…

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Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.

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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…

— Charley Pride

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

— Charley Pride