I’ve seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I’m Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It’s because of the respect I have for them.

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.

Fans are what make a performer and I’ve always taken them seriously.

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

I’ve tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

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

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.

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.