Performing Is An Experience, For Me, That

I'm Not James Brown. I'm Not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm Just Me And That's What You Got.

After 14 Months Of Military Service, I Had A Wife, A Child, Half An Apartment, No Car, And No Job.

Besides Good Schools, A Good Airport, And The Cowboys, Dallas Had Golf Courses, And Golf Was Fast Becoming An Obsession With Me.

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.

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