Charley Pride
Charley Pride
Charley Frank Prideis an American country music singer, musician/guitarist, recording artist, performer, and business owner. His greatest musical success came in the early- to mid-1970s when he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis Presley. During the peak years of his recording career, he garnered 52 top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, 29 of which made it to number one...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth18 March 1938
CitySledge, MS
CountryUnited States of America
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
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.
Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.
I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.
I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.
Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
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.
It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.
I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
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.
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.