Charley Pride famous quotes

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

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

#Attitude #Thinking #Worry

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
-- Charley Pride

#Artist #Years #Records

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
-- Charley Pride

#Taken #Fans #Performers

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

#Dream #People #Childhood

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

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

#Advice #Fans #Helpful

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
-- Charley Pride

#Girl #Men #Black

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

#Player #Guitar #Guitar Player

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

#Letting Go #Hug #Wish

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 #Fans #Moguls

Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.
-- Charley Pride

#Golf #Three

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

#Father #Saws #Cry

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.
-- Charley Pride

#Depression #Taken #Past

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

#Jobs #Singing #Made

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
-- Charley Pride

#Names #Politician #Well Known

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

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

#Giving #Special #Intimacy

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

#Artist #Helping #Young

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

#Rocks #Atlanta #Records

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

#Country #Thinking #Rooms

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

#Care

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

#Fans #Adoration #Entertainers

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

#Eye #Fingers

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

#Guitar #Tunes #Ears

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

#Energizing #Humbling #Performing

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

#Country #Fans #World

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
-- Charley Pride

#Television #Saws

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

#Religious #Organization #Belief

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.
-- Charley Pride

#Baseball #Two #People