“Country music — it's just about time for it to stop being used as a whipping boy. It's a good music. It's the basic music of America, I believe, combined with all the rest of categories that we have — jazz, blues, you name it. Like jazz has been kicked and blues has been kicked. Then it feeds down into the ethnic groups and you start slicing it up. So all that is happening now is a combination of things starting to jell. It's all one ball of wax to me.” — Charley Pride

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