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" The more you play music, the better you'll get. "
Glen Campbell
Get
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" I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's. "
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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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" 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. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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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" I can't be alone. "
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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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Place
Good
Me
" TV is just an incredible media. "
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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. "
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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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" If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material. "
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" I go to a great church. "
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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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Me
" 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 love singing. I just love it. "
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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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" There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience. "
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" All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline. "
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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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