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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
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Guitarist
Musician
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Mississippi
Charley Frank Pride
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It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
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Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.
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Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.
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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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I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
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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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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 was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
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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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As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.
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Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
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I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
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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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I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
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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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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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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 always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.
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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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