Glen Campbell Quotes
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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.
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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 like 'me'/'I' songs.
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I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.
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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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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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A good song is a good song.
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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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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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Life is too short not to enjoy it.
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I play guitar, and it's not a prop.
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All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.
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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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God saved me.
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Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.
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I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.
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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.
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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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Elvis was a great singer. He really was.
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TV is just an incredible media.
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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.
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I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying.
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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.