Charley Pride Quotes
"Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Business, Beliefs, Religious)
"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
(Related: Music, Country, Country music, Influence, Television)
"What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period."
- Charley Pride
(Related: People, Act, Country, Pride)
"When 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."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Artist, Old)
"The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Music, Company, Country, Country music, Fans)
"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
(Related: Music, Country, Country music, Criticism, Public)
"I think there's enough room in country music for everybody."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Music, Country, Country music)
"A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Man, Potential, Singing, Trouble)
"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
(Related: Will, World)
"Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Experience, Fans)
"Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Guitar)
"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
(Related: Eyes, Now)
"Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Fans)
"Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Advice, Fans, Praise, Will)
"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
(Related: Experience, Confidence, Self)
"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
(Related: Religion, God, Care)
"There are worse things than being thought a Republican."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Thought, Being, Republican)
"I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Guitar, Pretty)
"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
(Related: Time, Attitude, Thinking)
"I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Thought, People, Childhood)
"I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Artists, Help)
"In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Artist, Years)
"It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Music, Country, Country music, World)
"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
(Related: Now, Pretty)
"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
(Related: Music, Voice)
"Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Name, Politicians)
"Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Experience)
"Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Old, Television)
"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
(Related: Money, Thought, Job, Singing)
"I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Father)