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In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
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
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Mississippi
Charley Frank Pride
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I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
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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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I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
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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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Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
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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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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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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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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 are worse things than being thought a Republican.
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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 always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.
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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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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 realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.
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Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
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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.
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As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.
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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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