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It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
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
Charley Frank Pride
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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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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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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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Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.
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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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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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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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Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
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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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