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It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.
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
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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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I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
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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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There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
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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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Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
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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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Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.
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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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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 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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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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I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
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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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In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
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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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I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
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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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