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" Elvis was a great singer. He really was. "

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" I've been through a lot of changes. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" God saved me. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I can't be alone. "

" Some things I don't want to remember. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

" I go to a great church. "

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

" I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9. "

" 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. "

" I have been blessed. I really have. "