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Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived. ↗

— Charley Pride

#best #chet #ever #guitar #guitar player

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. ↗

— Reynolds Price

#fiction #find #going #got #i

I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions. ↗

— Richard Price

#book #close #different #i #i can

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished. ↗

— Richard Price

#everywhere #finished #i #like #offices

If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged. ↗

— Richard Price

#acknowledged #book #center #character #integrate

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day. ↗

— Richard Price

#day #enough #letters #lose #make

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange. ↗

— Charley Pride

#always #childhood #dreamer #especially #i

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't. ↗

— Charley Pride

#belongs #country #country music #criticism #divisiveness

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls. ↗

— Charley Pride

#consultants #country #country music #defined #fans

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world. ↗

— Charley Pride

#fan #go #grab #happens #hug