Glen Campbell Quotes

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

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• I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

  

  B. B. King
  • Want
  • Wonder
  • Talent

• I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Home
  • Enjoy
  • Very

• I'm looking forward to losing the long locks at some point. But it's been fun, and I do enjoy it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Losing

• I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Like

• If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Men
  • Play
  • Church

• I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • Name
  • Tough

• I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • College
  • Years
  • Gone

• I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Art
  • Home
  • Japanese

• I was born with an evil face.

  

  Barry Sloane
  • Evil
  • Born
  • Face

• I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Fall

• In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

  

  Yoshio Taniguchi
  • Hope
  • Architecture
  • Tea

• I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Men
  • Think
  • Best

• What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • People
  • Different
  • Ideas

• After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

  

  Hans Kung
  • World
  • War
  • History

• You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • You
  • Teach
  • Old

• Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forr, and death. The lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home.

  

  Dennis Nurkse
  • Vulnerability
  • Strangers
  • Ticket

• I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Dark

• I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'

  

  Donald Byrd
  • School
  • Band
  • Waiting

• I don't write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Writing

• Two places are ordained for man to dwell in after this life. While he is here, he may choose, by God's mercy, which he will; but once he is gone from here, he may not do so. For whichever he first goes to, whether he like it well or ill, there he must dwell forevermore. He shall never after change his dwelling, though he hates it ever so badly.

  

  John Wycliffe
  • Life
  • God
  • May

• 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
  • Band