Top 55 Glen Campbell Quotes

Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.

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

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.

Elvis was a great singer. He really was.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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 spent some time in Hell.

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.

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.

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

A good song is a good song.

I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.

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

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

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 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’m from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there.

You don’t mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes.

I worked my butt off.

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’ve been through a lot of changes.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.

I go to a great church.

TV is just an incredible media.

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

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

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.

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

I’m an avid golfer.

I play guitar, and it’s not a prop.

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.

I love symphonies. I love string sections.

I’ve been every way there is to be.

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

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

I’ve always been forgetful.

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.

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.

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.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

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

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

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

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