Top 108 Quotes & Sayings by Glen Campbell - Page 2

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.

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.

That's what we grew up with - the good songs, the good lyrics, the good big-band stuff. I miss that era.

I love singing. I just love it.

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.

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 would rather do live than any kind of lip-synching or something like that. I don't like to lip-synch.

I can't be alone.

'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.

We moved to Los Angeles because our daughter wanted to go to Pepperdine.

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.

Dean Martin. He was incredible.

Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.

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.

I go to a great church.

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've been through a lot of changes.

I like to play golf. You know, make a little money, lose a little money. Get 10 bucks, lose 20 bucks.

I love symphonies. I love string sections.

Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.

The very first big one I had was 'Turn Around and Look At Me.'

I'd have to pick cotton for a year to make what I'd make in a week in L.A.

Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.

I'm an avid golfer.

I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.

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.'

I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.

I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better.

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.

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'm running my life according to what I know to be true from the Bible and the old scribes.

It's easier being with somebody who's got some sense.

If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material.

Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.

I am just trying to do a song the best possible way I can.

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

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.

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.

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.

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

I gave John Wayne the push he needed to get that Oscar.

I'm not an actor, really. I can play myself pretty well.

I miss him already. He was a unique person and a dear friend. If a record came on the radio, you'd know it was Waylon Jennings.

There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets.

There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

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.

I am a lineman for the county.