Charley Pride Quotes

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

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.

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

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

I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.