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It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

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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
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Mississippi
Charley Frank Pride
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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 think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
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I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
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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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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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There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
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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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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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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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Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
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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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In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
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Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
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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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I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
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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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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 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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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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I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
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