Author: Charley Pride

Quotes

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

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

- Charley Pride

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

- Charley Pride

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 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

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.

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

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

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

- Charley Pride

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- Charley Pride

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