Glen Campbell Quotes
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I play guitar, and it's not a prop.
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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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I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.
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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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There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.
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I have been blessed. I really have.
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I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying.
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To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.
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I know it was raw in some places, and I was a jerk in some places, but that's the way I was, and I was stupid.
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I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's.
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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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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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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've been through a lot of changes.
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I worked my butt off.
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Life is too short not to enjoy it.
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I can read a chord chart, but I couldn't read a note chart.
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I am just trying to do a song the best possible way I can.
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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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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'm from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there.
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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.