Charley Pride Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

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

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

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

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

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

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.

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he?

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

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.

I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.

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

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

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.

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

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.