Black Quote by Charley Pride

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and…

— Dierks Bentley

I've known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion within me…

— Josh Turner

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

— Charley Pride

As a singer and actor, I wanted to confidently enlist as an active-duty soldier, and do everything I could in my duty to defend…

— Seo In-guk

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

— Robert Wyatt

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

— Bill Kreutzmann

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I…

— Charley Pride

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's…

— Ketch Secor

I had a couple of years of rebellion - I was singing in a rock band.

— Antoine Arnault

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

— Willie Nelson

I grew up in the era where everybody wanted to sing like Mitch Ryder and James Brown. And I did, too. But I learned…

— Michael McDonald

I've always wanted to sing country music.

— Julianne Hough