Charley Pride

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

— Charley Pride

#experience #humbling #me #performing

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television. ↗

— Charley Pride

#same #saw #television #you

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. ↗

— Charley Pride

#full-time #full-time job #given #had #i

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. ↗

— Charley Pride

#attitude #better #could #else #how

There are worse things than being thought a Republican. ↗

— Charley Pride

#republican #than #things #thought #worse

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge. ↗

— Charley Pride

#charge #entertainer #gives #intimacy #opry

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

— Charley Pride

#business #enforcing #many #organizations #religious

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. ↗

— Charley Pride

#audience #been #compete #country #country music

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

— Charley Pride

#charley #country #country singer #how #i

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. ↗

— Charley Pride

#came #every #i #i came #new