81 Quotes by Charley Pride

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

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

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.

Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.

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

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.

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.

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.

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.