Glen Campbell
There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.
Life is too short not to enjoy it.
Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have.
To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.
I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.
I needed a capo - a clamp to hold down the strings - so my daddy made me one out of a corn on the cob and a rubber band.
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.
Some things I don't want to remember.
I got to play with the big guys, the Wrecking Crew. They just blew me away. I learned a lot of stuff from those guys.
I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.
Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.
We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke.
I spent some time in Hell.
Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.
When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes.
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.
A good song is a good song.
I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.
God saved me.
I still love making music. And I still love performing for my fans. I'd like to thank them for sticking with me through thick and thin.
You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.
Elvis was a great singer. He really was.
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.
I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's.
I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.
I like to play golf. You know, make a little money, lose a little money. Get 10 bucks, lose 20 bucks.
I'm really not a songwriter, so if I hear a song, I feel it and like it, I'll do it. But I'll make it the way I want to hear it.
I'd have to pick cotton for a year to make what I'd make in a week in L.A.
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.
We moved to Los Angeles because our daughter wanted to go to Pepperdine.
TV is just an incredible media.
I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying.
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.
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.
I've often asked myself, how much information can the brain actually hold? There'll probably come a day when you're able to download it; that's what you have to do when the machine's full.
God only knows just how much I'm going to do, or not going to do.
I gave John Wayne the push he needed to get that Oscar.
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.
I worked my butt off.
With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.'
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.
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.
If I get a song - a good song - I just sing it the way I hear it in my head. If anybody else wanted to add whistles and bells and chains rattling, that's fine. Just not too much. I actually just do things as straight ahead as possible.
The more you play music, the better you'll get.
'True Grit' was fun to do, but I wasn't cut out to be an actor. I made John Wayne look so good, he won his only Oscar.
I like 'me'/'I' songs.
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.
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.
I have been very blessed with some great songs.
I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better.