“I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.”
Charley Pride“I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.”
Charley Pride, Pride: The Charley Pride Story“Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.”
Charley Pride, Pride: The Charley Pride Story“I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.”
Charley Pride“Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.”
Charley Pride“For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.”
Charley Pride“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.”
Charley Pride“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.”
Charley Pride