Charley Pride Quotes

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

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.

I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.

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

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.

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.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

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

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

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.