Glen Campbell Quotes
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Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.
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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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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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I have been blessed. I really have.
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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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To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.
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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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Daddy - I remember when he first let me drive the cultivator for him, you know... He eased you into the hard work that you had to do later.
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I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's.
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I love singing. I just love it.
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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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You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes.
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When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes.
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I've been through a lot of changes.
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I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better.
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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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Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.
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I just tell you, the Lord's been good to me. Even if I was a rounder, He's been really, really nice to me.
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Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.
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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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I am just trying to do a song the best possible way I can.
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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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When I did 'Wichita Lineman,' it was as good as I could do it, so I keep doing it that way. It's such a haunting song.
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I worked my butt off.