“Life is too short not to enjoy it.”
― Glen Campbell
“Do everything according to God, and be nice, and treat other people the way you would like to be treated.”
― Glen Campbell
“There’s no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.”
― Glen Campbell
“You don’t mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes.”
― Glen Campbell
“The more you play music, the better you’ll get.”
― Glen Campbell
“They could never put me in a slot. They couldn’t say Glen was ‘country,’ ‘pop’ or ‘rock.’ I’m crock, OK? A cross between country and rock. Call me crock.”
― Glen Campbell
“I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth… and that people can change for the better.”
― Glen Campbell
“Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.”
― Glen Campbell
“I don’t have Alzheimer’s. I have part-timer’s.”
― Glen Campbell
“I don’t hold grudges.”
― Glen Campbell
“I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.”
― Glen Campbell
“Great stories start with great opening lines. ‘I’m a lineman for the county’ – what a great way to start a song.”
― Glen Campbell
“If you’ve got a good melody and a good story married together, that’s a good sign for hit-song material.”
― Glen Campbell
“I am just trying to do a song the best possible way I can.”
― Glen Campbell
“I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.”
― Glen Campbell
“A good song is a good song.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“I guess I’m like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn’t have as many jokes as he thought he did.”
― Glen Campbell
“I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“We didn’t have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that’s a silly joke.”
― Glen Campbell
“TV is just an incredible media.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“God saved me.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“I spent some time in Hell.”
― Glen Campbell
“I like ‘me’/’I’ songs.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“God only knows just how much I’m going to do, or not going to do.”
― Glen Campbell
“I worked my butt off.”
― Glen Campbell
“Some things I don’t want to remember.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“I have been very blessed with some great songs.”
― Glen Campbell
“I like to play golf. You know, make a little money, lose a little money. Get 10 bucks, lose 20 bucks.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“I’ve laughed, and I’ve cried. Laughing has got it over crying.”
― Glen Campbell
“I gave John Wayne the push he needed to get that Oscar.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“We moved to Los Angeles because our daughter wanted to go to Pepperdine.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“I was out of control… I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.”
― Glen Campbell
“I’ve been through a lot of changes.”
― Glen Campbell
“I’m an avid golfer.”
― Glen Campbell
“I go to a great church.”
― Glen Campbell
“Actually, I believe in the institution of marriage.”
― Glen Campbell
“It’s easier being with somebody who’s got some sense.”
― Glen Campbell
“Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don’t blame somebody else for your misfortunes.”
― Glen Campbell
“God’s law is God’s law, period. Teach your children that.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“When we cut ‘Strangers In The Night,’ we did the whole song in two takes.”
― Glen Campbell
“There’s a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.”
― Glen Campbell
“I don’t really classify ‘Wichita Lineman’ as country.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“I love symphonies. I love string sections.”
― Glen Campbell
“To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“The very first big one I had was ‘Turn Around and Look At Me.’”
― Glen Campbell
“I love singing. I just love it.”
― Glen Campbell
“I’ve been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.”
― Glen Campbell
“That’s what we grew up with – the good songs, the good lyrics, the good big-band stuff. I miss that era.”
― Glen Campbell
“I felt my music wasn’t aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.”
― Glen Campbell
“Music is music. It doesn’t matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.”
― Glen Campbell
“I don’t remember not singing. I started when I was, I don’t know how – what, two years old or a year old or something like that.”
― Glen Campbell
“Dean Martin. He was incredible.”
― Glen Campbell
“I can read a chord chart, but I couldn’t read a note chart.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“I would rather do live than any kind of lip-synching or something like that. I don’t like to lip-synch.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“I can’t be alone.”
― Glen Campbell
“With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said ‘Go.’”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“What I try to do is live with myself and please me. If I can’t do that, I can’t please anybody else or live with anybody else.”
― Glen Campbell
“Hank Williams’ music – it just doesn’t go away, for some reason.”
― Glen Campbell
“I’m running my life according to what I know to be true from the Bible and the old scribes.”
― Glen Campbell
“I used to be just a total jazz freak. People used to say, ‘Where’s the melody? Is there a melody in there anywhere?’ Now I let the music follow the song.”
― Glen Campbell
“Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.”
― Glen Campbell
“If we grew it, we ate it. If Daddy shot it, Mamma cooked it.”
― Glen Campbell
“’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.”
― Glen Campbell
“I learned it was crucial to play right on the edge of the beat… It makes you drive the song more. You’re ahead of the beat, but you’re not.”
― Glen Campbell
“I’d have to pick cotton for a year to make what I’d make in a week in L.A.”
― Glen Campbell
“Elvis was a great singer. He really was.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.’”
― Glen Campbell
“Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.”
― Glen Campbell
“Perhaps I’ve found the secret for an unhappy private life. Every three years, I go and marry a girl who doesn’t love me, and then she proceeds to take all my money.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“I’ve always been forgetful.”
― Glen Campbell
“I have been blessed. I really have.”
― Glen Campbell
“I play guitar, and it’s not a prop.”
― Glen Campbell
“Success is not getting what you want, it’s enjoying what you have.”
― Glen Campbell
“I’m from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there.”
― Glen Campbell
“I’ve been every way there is to be.”
― Glen Campbell
“I’m not an actor, really. I can play myself pretty well.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“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.”
― Glen Campbell
“With a lot of songs, songs that don’t make a good statement, I forget the words.”
― Glen Campbell
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