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" 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. "

Glen Campbell

Country

Music

Cash

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Life

Money

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I spent some time in Hell. "

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Glen Campbell

Songs

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

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

" You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me. "

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Place

Good

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

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Singer

Great

" 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 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 have been very blessed with some great songs. "

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

" The more you play music, the better you'll get. "

" 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. "