Facts about Charley Pride

Occup.	Athlete
From	USA
Born	March 18, 1938
Age	87 years

Summary

Charley Pride is a famous Athlete from USA, he/she is 87 years old and still alive, born March 18, 1938.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac pisces, who is known for Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive. Our collection contains 30 quotes who is written / told by Charley.

30 Famous quotes by Charley Pride

"There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge"

Charley Pride

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

Charley Pride

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

Charley Pride

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

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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"

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"

Charley Pride

"Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived"

Charley Pride

"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

"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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"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

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

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"I think there's enough room in country music for everybody"

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"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

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

Charley Pride

"Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience"

Charley Pride

"There are worse things than being thought a Republican"

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"Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing"

Charley Pride

"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

"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

"Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously"

Charley Pride

"Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting"

Charley Pride

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

Charley Pride

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

Charley Pride

"A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble"

Charley Pride

"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

"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

"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

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

Charley Pride

"What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period"

Charley Pride

"Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs"

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