Quotes by Charley Pride

About Charley Pride:

Charley Frank Pride is an American country music singer, musician/guitarist, recording artist, performer, and business owner. His greatest musical success came in the early- to mid-1970s when he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis Presley. In total, he has garnered 39 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.
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A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.

Charley Pride

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

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.

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.

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.

Charley Pride

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

Charley Pride

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

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.

Charley Pride

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

Charley Pride

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameCharley Pride
  • DescriptionUS baseball player and country singer
  • BornMarch 18, 1938
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBaseball Player; Musician
  • AwardsGrammy Award; Favorite Country Male Artist; Favorite Country Male Artist