Charley Pride Quotes
Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television. 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. The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls. 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. There are worse things than being thought a Republican. There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge. Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs. 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. What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period. 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. 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.
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