The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
- Charley Pride
Country, Limited, Music Fans, Tastes
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
Artist, New, Old, Old One
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, Entertainers, Defining
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
Country, Compete, Been, Huge Influence
Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
- Charley Pride
Me, Energizing, Performing, Humbling
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
- Charley Pride
Singing, Black, About, Blond
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
Charge, Concerned, Them, Adhere
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
Happen, Pretty, Like, Good Record
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
Will, Over, Could, Grab
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
- Charley Pride
Artist, Records, Sold, RCA
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
Doing, Pretty, Like, Reply
Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
- Charley Pride
Will, Offer, Scold, Helpful
Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
- Charley Pride
Business, Religious, Too, Organizations
Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
- Charley Pride
Never, Adoration, Tells, Heady
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, Another, Blacks
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
- Charley Pride
Very, Dad, Cries, Liking
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
- Charley Pride
Think, Country, Period, Charley
I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
- Charley Pride
Pretty, Method, Learned, Ear
Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
- Charley Pride
Once, Known, Well Known, Politicians
It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
- Charley Pride
Country, Expect, Fan, Anyway
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, Some, Arbitrary
Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.
- Charley Pride
Best, Ever, Guitar Player, Guitar
I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
- Charley Pride
Think, Country, Everybody, Country Music
There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
- Charley Pride
Special, Intimacy, Charge, Entertainer
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
Could, Use, Spent, Worrying
There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
- Charley Pride
Thought, Than, Things, Republican
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
- Charley Pride
Dreams, Dreamer, Always, Strange
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
Singing, Thought, Given, Full-Time
Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
- Charley Pride
Always, Taken, Them, Performer
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