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" I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me. "
Glen Campbell
Mess
God
Forgiven
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" I have been blessed. I really have. "
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Been
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" If we grew it, we ate it. If Daddy shot it, Mamma cooked it. "
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Daddy
Grew
Cooked
" 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. "
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Life
Money
Me
" 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. "
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Potential
Feel
Me
" I gave John Wayne the push he needed to get that Oscar. "
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Push
Gave
Get
" 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. "
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Tell
Me
Lord
" Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes. "
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Us
Blame
Somebody
" 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. "
Glen Campbell
Me
Try
Please
" The very first big one I had was 'Turn Around and Look At Me.' "
Glen Campbell
Around
First
Turn
" I am just trying to do a song the best possible way I can. "
Glen Campbell
Trying
Way
I Can
" I have been very blessed with some great songs. "
Glen Campbell
Some
Great
Blessed
" I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song. "
Glen Campbell
Good
Doing
Everything
" 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. "
Glen Campbell
Good
Head
Ahead
" 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. "
Glen Campbell
Guitar
Better
You
" With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words. "
Glen Campbell
Good
Forget
Statement
" There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart. "
Glen Campbell
Country Music
Country
Heart
" 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. "
Glen Campbell
Know
Way
Stupid
" I can't be alone. "
Glen Campbell
Alone
" 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. "
Glen Campbell
Say
Song
Now
" Elvis was a great singer. He really was. "
Glen Campbell
He
Singer
Great
" I love symphonies. I love string sections. "
Glen Campbell
Sections
I Love
Love
" I've been through a lot of changes. "
Glen Campbell
Lot
Changes
Through
" If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material. "
Glen Campbell
Together
Good
Story
" I like to play golf. You know, make a little money, lose a little money. Get 10 bucks, lose 20 bucks. "
Glen Campbell
Play
Golf
Know
" 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. "
Glen Campbell
Up
God
Messed Up
" 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. "
Glen Campbell
Right
Play
Too Much
" 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. "
Glen Campbell
Want
Way
Song
" That's what we grew up with - the good songs, the good lyrics, the good big-band stuff. I miss that era. "
Glen Campbell
Good
Up
Stuff
" 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. "
Glen Campbell
Work
Remember
Me
" We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke. "
Glen Campbell
TV
Silly
Electricity