Best 49 quotes of Charley Pride on MyQuotes

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential 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.

After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.

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.

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

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

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

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

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

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.

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

Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.

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

I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.

I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more are being added all the time.

I believe it is possible to tell what sign some people were born under by watching their eyes, watching how they walk, how they talk.

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.

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

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.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

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.

I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

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

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

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

Johnny Duncan was one of the first opening acts I hired for my show, and he is the one who initiated me into astrology. I got hooked. It made a lot of sense to me.

Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her.

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

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.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

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

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

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.

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

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.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

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

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

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

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.

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.