Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.
Charley Pride
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
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
Curiosity
Artists
Older
Realize
Ones
Realizing
Artist
Nashville
More quotes by Charley Pride
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.
Charley Pride
There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
Charley Pride
I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.
Charley Pride
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.
Charley Pride
It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.
Charley Pride
I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
Charley Pride
Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
Charley Pride
Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
Charley Pride
I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
Charley Pride
I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
Charley Pride
If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.
Charley Pride
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.
Charley Pride
Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
Charley Pride
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.
Charley Pride
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.
Charley Pride
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.
Charley Pride
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.
Charley Pride
Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.
Charley Pride
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.
Charley Pride
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
Charley Pride
