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

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

" TV is just an incredible media. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" To play with a symphony today is just fabulous. "

" 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. "

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

" With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.' "

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

" I've been every way there is to be. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" A good song is a good song. "

" Life is too short not to enjoy it. "

Life Is Too Short

" 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. "

" 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'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. "