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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Dean Martin. He was incredible. "

" A good song is a good 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. "

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

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

" It's easier being with somebody who's got some sense. "

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

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

" It was Dec. 22, 1981. I figured I had messed up enough, and I decided to have a little faith and let God take over. It definitely straightened my act up in a hurry. "

" 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. "

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

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" I have been blessed. I really have. "

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

" 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. "

" TV is just an incredible media. "