Glen Campbell Quotes
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I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying.
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You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes.
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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 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.
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To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.
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I've been through a lot of changes.
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TV is just an incredible media.
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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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I'm running my life according to what I know to be true from the Bible and the old scribes.
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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.
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Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.
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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.
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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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Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.
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I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's.
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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.
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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.
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I love singing. I just love it.
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When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes.
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I am just trying to do a song the best possible way I can.