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I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
Charley Pride
Father
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.
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Money
Thought
Job
Singing
Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
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Old
Television
Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
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Experience
Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
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Name
Politicians
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.
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Music
Voice
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.
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Now
Pretty
It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
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Music
Country
Country music
World
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
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Artist
Years
I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
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Artists
Help
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
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Thought
People
Childhood
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.
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Time
Attitude
Thinking
I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
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Guitar
Pretty
There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
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Thought
Being
Republican
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.
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Religion
God
Care