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" Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton. "

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" I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that. "

" '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. "

" Some things I don't want to remember. "

" I can't be alone. "

" I have been blessed. I really have. "

" 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 have been very blessed with some great songs. "

" I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble. "

" 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. "

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

" I go to a great church. "

" I worked my butt off. "

" Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about. "

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

" With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.' "

" God saved me. "

" 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. "

" I love singing. I just love it. "

" A good song is a good song. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We moved to Los Angeles because our daughter wanted to go to Pepperdine. "

" 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. "