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Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
Charley Pride
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Charley Pride
Age: 82 †
Born: 1938
Born: March 18
Died: 2020
Died: December 12
Baseball Player
Businessperson
Guitarist
Musician
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Mississippi
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In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
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I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.
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I try to keep my feet on the ground. Even though I appreciate the fame and adoration, I remember once I used to pick cotton, and I felt like even then I was somebody. I have the same feet, hands and heart like everyone else. I'm just also blessed with a good voice.
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There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
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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.
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Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.
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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.
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Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
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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.
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I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.
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Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
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If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.
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I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
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As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.
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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.
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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.
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Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
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No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.
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Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.
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I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
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