Top 31 Quotes by Charley Pride

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

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.

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.