I Always Wanted To Grow Up Fast.

What Qualifies Me To Tell People How To Act Or What To Think? I'm Charley Pride, Country Singer. Period.

I Was Sometimes Jeered By Black Soldiers Who Wanted Me To Sing Something Besides Country Music.

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.

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.

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.