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Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

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
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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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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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It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.
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Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.
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I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
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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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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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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 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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Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.
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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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Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
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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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I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
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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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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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It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
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There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
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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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In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
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