81 Quotes by Charley Pride

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.

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.

People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.

There were very few black people in Montana but we never felt out of place.

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.

Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.

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.

As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.

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.