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I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries. ↗

— Charley Pride

#cries #cry #everybody #father #grew

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody. ↗

— Charley Pride

#country music #enough #everybody #i #i think

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley. ↗

— Charley Pride

#artist #elvis #elvis presley #except #had

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

— Charley Pride

#country #country music #everyone #expect #fan

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

#blacks #ever #had #i #kind

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television. ↗

— Charley Pride

#same #saw #television #you

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it. ↗

— Charley Pride

#full-time #full-time job #given #had #i

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge. ↗

— Charley Pride

#charge #entertainer #gives #intimacy #opry

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did. ↗

— Charley Pride

#audience #been #compete #country #country music

When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out. ↗

— Charley Pride

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