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I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
Charley Pride
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Charley Pride
Age: 82 †
Born: 1938
Born: March 18
Died: 2020
Died: December 12
Baseball Player
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Guitarist
Musician
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Mississippi
Charley Frank Pride
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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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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 grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
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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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Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.
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I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
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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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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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I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.
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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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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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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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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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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've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
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