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"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."
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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."
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"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."
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"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."
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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."
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"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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"I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else."
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"The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician."
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"There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge."
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"Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing."
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"I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange."
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"In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley."
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"What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously."
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"I think there's enough room in country music for everybody."
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"Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you."
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