Glen Campbell

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

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

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 love symphonies. I love string sections.

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

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

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

I love singing. I just love it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Dean Martin. He was incredible.

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

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

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.

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

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 can't be alone.

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'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.

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.

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.

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

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

I've been every way there is to be.

I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.

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

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

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

I have been blessed. I really have.

I've always been forgetful.

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.

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 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.

Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.

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

'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.

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.

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

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.'

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

Elvis was a great singer. He really was.