The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
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.
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.
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.
It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.
There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.
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