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Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
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
Singer
Songwriter
Sledge
Mississippi
Charley Frank Pride
Gruff
Redd
Saws
Television
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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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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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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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I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.
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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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Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.
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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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Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.
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I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
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Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
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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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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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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.
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I believe it is possible to tell what sign some people were born under by watching their eyes, watching how they walk, how they talk.
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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 was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
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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.
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There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
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The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.
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It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
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