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I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
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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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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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 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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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 was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
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Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.
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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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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 realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.
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There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
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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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Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
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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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