I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
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.
Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
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.
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
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.
I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
Chet Atkins... Is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.
