Top 31 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

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.

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

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.

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

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