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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
Television
Gruff
Redd
Saws

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I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
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I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
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I don't care what the religion is called as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
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There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
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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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I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
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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 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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Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.
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There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
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In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
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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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As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.
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Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
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Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.
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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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I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
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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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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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