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I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

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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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As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.
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I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
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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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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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Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
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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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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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Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.
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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 always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.
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Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
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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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It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.
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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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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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Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
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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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Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.
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Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.
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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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