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" 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
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" 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. "
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" When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes. "
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" Life is too short not to enjoy it. "
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" The more you play music, the better you'll get. "
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" 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. "
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" I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9. "
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" The very first big one I had was 'Turn Around and Look At Me.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country. "
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" Some things I don't want to remember. "
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" 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. "
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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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You
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" A good song is a good song. "
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Song
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" 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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Good
Me
" I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying. "
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Laughing
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" God saved me. "
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God
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" 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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TV
Silly
Electricity
" Do everything according to God, and be nice, and treat other people the way you would like to be treated. "
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People
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God
" With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words. "
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Good
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" I got to play with the big guys, the Wrecking Crew. They just blew me away. I learned a lot of stuff from those guys. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" To play with a symphony today is just fabulous. "
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" 'True Grit' was fun to do, but I wasn't cut out to be an actor. I made John Wayne look so good, he won his only Oscar. "
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