It isn’t reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway. Charley Pride Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing. Charley Pride Read Quote
Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience. Charley Pride Read Quote
