Quotes from Charley Pride

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

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

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

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

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

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.

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.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

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

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

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.

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.

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

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

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

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.