Charley Pride

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

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

“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.”

“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.”