I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
From Charley Pride
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.
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.
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.
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.
Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
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