Charley Pride's Quotes
Born: 1938-03-18
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
Biography of Charley Pride
There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
Tags: Republican, Thought, WorseThere is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
Tags: Intimacy, Special, TheaterToo many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
Tags: Beliefs, Business, ReligiousWhat qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
Tags: Country, Pride, TellWhen 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.
Tags: Artist, Old, RoomUntil 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.
Tags: Country, Music, YoungWhat 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.
Tags: Country, Music, PublicI was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
Tags: Dreams, Strange, ThoughtThe tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
Tags: Company, Country, MusicIt 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.
Tags: Good, Happen, RockA 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.
Tags: Happens, Hug, WishAny entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
Tags: Adoration, Experience, FansEven now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.
Tags: Eyes, Good, PrettyFans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
Tags: Advice, Fans, PraiseFor most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
Tags: Confidence, Experience, SingleI 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.
Tags: Care, God, ReligionI grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
Tags: Dad, Father, HimI learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
Tags: Guitar, Learned, PrettyVisit partners pages
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In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
Tags: Artist, Except, RecordsIt isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
Tags: Country, Everyone, MusicNo 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.
Tags: Another, Music, VoicePerforming is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
Tags: Experience, Humbling, PerformingRedd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
Tags: Old, TelevisionSinging 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.
Tags: Job, Money, ThoughtThe 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.
Tags: Attitude, Thinking, TimeClimate change is a complex problem with no central lever, and with unequal distribution of resources.
Tags: Change, Complex, ProblemI like tackling problems that I can see making an impact on real people and real businesses immediately.
Tags: Making, Problems, Real