Glen Campbell Quotes
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Dean Martin. He was incredible.
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With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.'
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I'm not an actor, really. I can play myself pretty well.
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The more you play music, the better you'll get.
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I'd have to pick cotton for a year to make what I'd make in a week in L.A.
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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.
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'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.
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Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have.
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I would rather do live than any kind of lip-synching or something like that. I don't like to lip-synch.
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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.
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That's what we grew up with - the good songs, the good lyrics, the good big-band stuff. I miss that era.
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I have been very blessed with some great songs.
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God only knows just how much I'm going to do, or not going to do.
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I go to a great church.
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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.
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There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.
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If we grew it, we ate it. If Daddy shot it, Mamma cooked it.
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Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.
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Do everything according to God, and be nice, and treat other people the way you would like to be treated.
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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.
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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.
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Actually, I believe in the institution of marriage.
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The very first big one I had was 'Turn Around and Look At Me.'
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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.