I just wanted to do a music show, with the whole realm of music from Ella Fitzgerald to rock bands like Cream to Kenny Rogers. We had a lot of country, but we did every kind of music. The Monkees were on, and so was Johnny Cash.
- Glen Campbell
Country, Show, Rogers, Johnny
I got to play with the big guys, the Wrecking Crew. They just blew me away. I learned a lot of stuff from those guys.
- Glen Campbell
Play, Big, Away, Blew
All my records - 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix,' 'Wichita Lineman,' 'Galveston,' 'Rhinestone Cowboy,' 'Dreams of the Everyday Housewife' - they all had strings on them.
- Glen Campbell
Cowboy, Records, By The Time, Housewife
I play guitar, and it's not a prop.
- Glen Campbell
Play, Guitar, Prop
I'm from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there.
- Glen Campbell
Light, Far, Sticks, Pump
If I get a song - a good song - I just sing it the way I hear it in my head. If anybody else wanted to add whistles and bells and chains rattling, that's fine. Just not too much. I actually just do things as straight ahead as possible.
- Glen Campbell
Chains, Good Song, Bells, Rattling
To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.
- Glen Campbell
Today, Play, Just, Symphony
They could never put me in a slot. They couldn't say Glen was 'country,' 'pop' or 'rock.' I'm crock, OK? A cross between country and rock. Call me crock.
- Glen Campbell
Country, Could, Cross, OK
We lived on the farm, and our mode of transportation was wagon and team. No electricity. I'm the seventh son of 12 kids - eight boys and four girls. Mom and Dad handled that very well. But I wanted to get out.
- Glen Campbell
Very, Wagon, Dad, Transportation
I'm an avid golfer.
- Glen Campbell
Golfer, Avid
The more you play music, the better you'll get.
- Glen Campbell
Music, Play, Better, Play Music
Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.
- Glen Campbell
Remember, Very, Frankly, 1970s
With the TV shows, you get eight zillion people watching you. I was really surprised at the way everything went. I knew television was powerful, but that was just... wow.
- Glen Campbell
Television, Knew, TV, Wow
Perhaps I've found the secret for an unhappy private life. Every three years, I go and marry a girl who doesn't love me, and then she proceeds to take all my money.
- Glen Campbell
Love, Private, Marry, Proceeds
Roger Miller opened a lot of people's eyes to the possibilities of country music, and it's making more impact now because it's earthy material: stories and things that happen to everyday people. I call it 'people music.'
- Glen Campbell
Possibilities, Country, Everyday
Ah, the Wrecking Crew! They played on everything that came out of L.A. Oh, that was a good band. You really enjoyed going to work. You played for everyone; it didn't matter what it was.
- Glen Campbell
Work, Everyone, Going, Good Band
That's what we grew up with - the good songs, the good lyrics, the good big-band stuff. I miss that era.
- Glen Campbell
Songs, Era, Up, Lyrics
I'll tell you, my dad played and sang, and it didn't take me long to figure out that playing a guitar was a whole lot better than getting ahold of a hoe handle or chopping cotton, man.
- Glen Campbell
Tell, Cotton, Dad, Chopping
I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.
- Glen Campbell
Thought, Say, Like, Jokes
I've often asked myself, how much information can the brain actually hold? There'll probably come a day when you're able to download it; that's what you have to do when the machine's full.
- Glen Campbell
Myself, Come, Often, Download
All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.
- Glen Campbell
Play, Wanted, Ever, Sideline
If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material.
- Glen Campbell
Good Story, Sign, Got, Good Sign
I realize you are going to make mistakes through life. Just don't make any bad ones, you know. Like all of my records are perfect records, but I did make mistakes on them.
- Glen Campbell
Perfect, Bad, Through, Bad Ones
I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying.
- Glen Campbell
Over, Crying, Cried, Laughing
There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.
- Glen Campbell
Conscience, Clear, Pillow
I needed a capo - a clamp to hold down the strings - so my daddy made me one out of a corn on the cob and a rubber band.
- Glen Campbell
Corn, Needed, Made, Daddy
Daddy - I remember when he first let me drive the cultivator for him, you know... He eased you into the hard work that you had to do later.
- Glen Campbell
I Remember, Remember When, Daddy
If we grew it, we ate it. If Daddy shot it, Mamma cooked it.
- Glen Campbell
Ate, Cooked, Grew, Daddy
I gave John Wayne the push he needed to get that Oscar.
- Glen Campbell
Needed, John Wayne, Oscar, Push
I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.
- Glen Campbell
Song, Doing, Good Song, Aiming
I'm a take-me-as-l-am person, and all the rest is water under the bridge. You can't change yesterday any more than you can predict what's gonna happen tomorrow.
- Glen Campbell
Rest, More, Happen, Bridge
I'm really not a songwriter, so if I hear a song, I feel it and like it, I'll do it. But I'll make it the way I want to hear it.
- Glen Campbell
Song, Want, Like, Songwriter
I still love making music. And I still love performing for my fans. I'd like to thank them for sticking with me through thick and thin.
- Glen Campbell
Love, Through, Still, Thin
I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad bought me a $7.50 guitar.
- Glen Campbell
Singing, Country, Old, Battery
I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.
- Glen Campbell
Me, Start, Like, Early
Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.
- Glen Campbell
Song, Stories, Great Stories, Lines
We moved to Los Angeles because our daughter wanted to go to Pepperdine.
- Glen Campbell
Wanted, Los, Angeles, Los Angeles
I can read a chord chart, but I couldn't read a note chart.
- Glen Campbell
Note, Chord, Read, Chart
I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.
- Glen Campbell
Bathroom, First, Saw, Indoor
I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better.
- Glen Campbell
Truth, Better, Very, Candid
With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.'
- Glen Campbell
Cards, String, Built, Credit Cards
There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.
- Glen Campbell
Music, Country, Even, Longing
I can think of only two or three songs out of hundreds I've recorded that I performed as originally written. I like to become intimate with the material and change it to suit me.
- Glen Campbell
Change, Think, Like, Hundreds
'True Grit' was fun to do, but I wasn't cut out to be an actor. I made John Wayne look so good, he won his only Oscar.
- Glen Campbell
John Wayne, Cut, Oscar, Wayne
I worked my butt off.
- Glen Campbell
Off, Worked, Butt
When I did 'Wichita Lineman,' it was as good as I could do it, so I keep doing it that way. It's such a haunting song.
- Glen Campbell
Song, Doing, Could, Haunting
We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke.
- Glen Campbell
Watch, TV, Candlelight, Joke
Actually, I believe in the institution of marriage.
- Glen Campbell
Institution, Actually, I Believe In
Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.
- Glen Campbell
Easier, Than, Lot, Picking
I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's.
- Glen Campbell
Alzheimer
Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.
- Glen Campbell
Tell, Some, Been, Potential
It's easier being with somebody who's got some sense.
- Glen Campbell
Sense, Some, Being, Easier
Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.
- Glen Campbell
Reason, Some, Go Away, Williams
I don't miss television. It's too much hurry up and sit around, wait till they do this and do that, and get the lighting just right. I'd much rather go out on a stage anywhere and just play and sing for an hour.
- Glen Campbell
Play, Wait, Till, Lighting
Elvis was a great singer. He really was.
- Glen Campbell
Great, Singer, He, Elvis
It was Dec. 22, 1981. I figured I had messed up enough, and I decided to have a little faith and let God take over. It definitely straightened my act up in a hurry.
- Glen Campbell
Messed Up, Over, Over It, Hurry
I love symphonies. I love string sections.
- Glen Campbell
Love, Symphonies, I Love, Sections
I don't hold grudges.
- Glen Campbell
Hold, Grudges
I know it was raw in some places, and I was a jerk in some places, but that's the way I was, and I was stupid.
- Glen Campbell
Stupid, Places, Some, Raw
I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.
- Glen Campbell
Me, Control, Mess, Forgiven
I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.
- Glen Campbell
Remember, Been, Ever, Guitar
I used to be just a total jazz freak. People used to say, 'Where's the melody? Is there a melody in there anywhere?' Now I let the music follow the song.
- Glen Campbell
Song, Say, Jazz, Melody
You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.
- Glen Campbell
Voice, Song, Play, Tune
Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.
- Glen Campbell
Music, I Am, Country, Pop
I played on a lot of Sinatra sessions. He was simply awesome. He liked to laugh, and he could be one of the boys when he wanted. But he was also a very serious performer.
- Glen Campbell
Performer, Could, Very, Serious
A good song is a good song.
- Glen Campbell
Good, Song, Good Song
Do everything according to God, and be nice, and treat other people the way you would like to be treated.
- Glen Campbell
Treat, Other, Treated, Be Nice
Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.
- Glen Campbell
Misfortunes, Your, Dad, Blame
What I try to do is live with myself and please me. If I can't do that, I can't please anybody else or live with anybody else.
- Glen Campbell
Myself, Anybody, Else, Anybody Else
I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.
- Glen Campbell
Country, Really, Classify
The very first big one I had was 'Turn Around and Look At Me.'
- Glen Campbell
Me, Big, Very, Big One
I learned it was crucial to play right on the edge of the beat... It makes you drive the song more. You're ahead of the beat, but you're not.
- Glen Campbell
Song, Play, Learned, Beat
I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.
- Glen Campbell
Mind, Been, Studio, Entered
I have been very blessed with some great songs.
- Glen Campbell
Some, Been, Very, Great Songs
Dean Martin. He was incredible.
- Glen Campbell
Incredible, Dean, Martin, None
I like to play golf. You know, make a little money, lose a little money. Get 10 bucks, lose 20 bucks.
- Glen Campbell
Play, Like, Bucks, Play Golf
TV is just an incredible media.
- Glen Campbell
Media, Just, TV, Incredible
I have been blessed. I really have.
- Glen Campbell
Been, Really, Blessed
Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.
- Glen Campbell
Honesty, Upset, Take, Lies
With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.
- Glen Campbell
Forget, Songs, Lot, Statement
Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have.
- Glen Campbell
Success, Success Is, Getting, Enjoying
I love singing. I just love it.
- Glen Campbell
Love, Just, I Love, Singing
I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that.
- Glen Campbell
Year, Old, Like, Singing
Some things I don't want to remember.
- Glen Campbell
Remember, Want, Some, Some Things
I'd have to pick cotton for a year to make what I'd make in a week in L.A.
- Glen Campbell
Week, Year, Pick, Cotton
I've been through a lot of changes.
- Glen Campbell
Through, Been, Lot, Changes
God saved me.
- Glen Campbell
God, Me, Saved
God's law is God's law, period. Teach your children that.
- Glen Campbell
Children, Law, Teach, Period
I'm running my life according to what I know to be true from the Bible and the old scribes.
- Glen Campbell
Bible, My Life, Old, Be True
You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes.
- Glen Campbell
Alone, Politics, Upset, Mess
I spent some time in Hell.
- Glen Campbell
Time, Some, Spent, Hell
Life is too short not to enjoy it.
- Glen Campbell
Short, Enjoy, Too, Life Is Too Short
When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes.
- Glen Campbell
Night, Song, Cut, Strangers
God only knows just how much I'm going to do, or not going to do.
- Glen Campbell
How, Only, Going, How Much
I just tell you, the Lord's been good to me. Even if I was a rounder, He's been really, really nice to me.
- Glen Campbell
Good, Tell, Been, Lord
I go to a great church.
- Glen Campbell
Great, Go, Church
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