Charley Pride Quotes

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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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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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For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

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

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People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.

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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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I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

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

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

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

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A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.

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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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Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.

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Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

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

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

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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.

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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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