Charley Pride Quotes

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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.

  Charley Pride

  Confidence, Self, Doubt

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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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.

  Charley Pride

  Voice, Kind

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• I try to keep my feet on the ground. Even though I appreciate the fame and adoration, I remember once I used to pick cotton, and I felt like even then I was somebody. I have the same feet, hands and heart like everyone else. I'm just also blessed with a good voice.

  Charley Pride

  Blessed, Heart, Hands

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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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  Attitude, Thinking, Worry

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• 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.

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  Letting Go, Hug, Wish

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Country, Thinking, Rooms

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• There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.

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  Baseball, Two, People

  "Nashville Gathers to remember Chet Atkins, 'Mr. Guitar'" by Michael Gray, www.mtv.com. July 02, 2001.

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

  Charley Pride

  Taken, Fans, Performers

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

  Charley Pride

  Dream, People, Childhood

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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

  Charley Pride

  Country, Pride, Thinking

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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.

  Charley Pride

  Country, Judgement, Criticism

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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

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  Country, Black, Unlikely

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

  Charley Pride

  Republican

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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

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  Country, Fans, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.

  Charley Pride

  Pride, Brown, Sam Cooke

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• Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

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  Religious, Organization, Belief

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

  Charley Pride

  Energizing, Humbling, Performing

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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.

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  Care, I Don't Care, Don't Care

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• If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

  Charley Pride

  Texas, Different, Louisiana

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• Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

  Charley Pride

  Mother, Careers, Receiving

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• 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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  Country, Fans, Moguls

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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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  Country, Pride, Guarantees That

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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

  Charley Pride

  Baseball, Blood, Harder

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

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  Land, Work Out, Perfect

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• I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

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  Summer, Rain, Horizon

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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