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" I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying. "
Glen Campbell
Crying
Laughing
Over
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" 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. "
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" I played on a lot of Sinatra sessions. He was simply awesome. He liked to laugh, and he could be one of the boys when he wanted. But he was also a very serious performer. "
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" Actually, I believe in the institution of marriage. "
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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. "
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" Dean Martin. He was incredible. "
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" God saved me. "
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" I don't hold grudges. "
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" Life is too short not to enjoy it. "
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" I'm not an actor, really. I can play myself pretty well. "
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" I would rather do live than any kind of lip-synching or something like that. I don't like to lip-synch. "
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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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Try
Please
" I can read a chord chart, but I couldn't read a note chart. "
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" Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop. "
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" 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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" I play guitar, and it's not a prop. "
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Play
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" The more you play music, the better you'll get. "
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You
Better
" I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me. "
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God
Forgiven
" With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words. "
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Good
Forget
Statement
" I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better. "
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Book
Change
Know
" Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song. "
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Way
Start
" 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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" '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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Fun
Look
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" 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.' "
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Eyes
People
Music
" 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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Money
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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 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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" It's easier being with somebody who's got some sense. "
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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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" 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. "
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Now