Aubrie Sellers Quotes

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

With country, it's hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years.

I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

I don't need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It's the music and it's always been about the music.

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse.

I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits.

If they keep playing us on country radio and we get to keep doing cool stuff like playing with Willie Nelson, that's great.

People might get mad at my style or my delivery and say it's not country. But the country music that brought me to Nashville? Man, I will always have that on a pedestal.

We don't want to become like country artists where there's a formula.

If Hank Williams had lived any longer, his name would have been one of the most hated in the land. Nashville would have dug him deep.

I think great music sells records, and I also think, do you want to be a reality star, or someone that actually has credibility? Because you can't have both.

The last thing I want to do is just be another voice on country music radio.

We've never tried to write radio hits. If I hear our song on the radio, it's cool, and I'm proud, but it's never a goal.

Record labels and producers are not looking to change you: they are looking to make a star. And what they might think is a star may not be you.

There's a lot of artists out there who are pretty big but don't write their songs, they just have a lifestyle brand. These are all things that I think are a great enemy to music.