Top 108 Quotes & Sayings by Glen Campbell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Glen Campbell.

Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Glen Travis Campbell was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, actor and television host. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television from 1969 until 1972. He released 64 albums in a career that spanned five decades, selling over 45 million records worldwide, including twelve gold albums, four platinum albums, and one double-platinum album.

American - Musician | April 22, 1936 - August 8, 2017

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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.

Glen Campbell

There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.

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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 worked my butt off.

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I can read a chord chart, but I couldn't read a note chart.

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All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.

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When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes.

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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.

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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 like 'me'/'I' songs.

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I've been every way there is to be.

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Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have.

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With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.

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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.

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I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

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Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.

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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.

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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.

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Some things I don't want to remember.

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I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying.

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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.

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I have been very blessed with some great songs.

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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 saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.

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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.

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Life is too short not to enjoy it.

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TV is just an incredible media.

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I've always been forgetful.

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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 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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Actually, I believe in the institution of marriage.

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God's law is God's law, period. Teach your children that.

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Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.

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I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.

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We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke.

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God only knows just how much I'm going to do, or not going to do.

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If we grew it, we ate it. If Daddy shot it, Mamma cooked it.

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I have been blessed. I really have.

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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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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.

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I spent some time in Hell.

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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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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.

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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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I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.

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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.

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God saved me.

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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.

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A good song is a good song.

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The more you play music, the better you'll get.

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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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Elvis was a great singer. He really was.

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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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Do everything according to God, and be nice, and treat other people the way you would like to be treated.

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I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's.

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There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

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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.

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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.

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I play guitar, and it's not a prop.

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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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