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For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.

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

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.

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

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

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.

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

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.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

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.

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

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.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.