Glen Campbell Quotes
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I like 'me'/'I' songs.
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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.
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I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.
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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.
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Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.
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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.
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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.'
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God saved me.
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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.
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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.
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I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.
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I'm from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there.
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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.
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I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.
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A good song is a good song.
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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.
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Elvis was a great singer. He really was.
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I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.
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I love singing. I just love it.
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I've always been forgetful.
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I've been every way there is to be.
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If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material.
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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.
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I play guitar, and it's not a prop.