There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge. |
Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously. |
There are worse things than being thought a Republican. |
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. |
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. |
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period. |
I think there's enough room in country music for everybody. |
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley. |
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with. |
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries. |
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. |