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" TV is just an incredible media. "
Glen Campbell
Media
TV
Just
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" I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble. "
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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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" There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart. "
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" You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes. "
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" I love singing. I just love it. "
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" I can't be alone. "
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" I'm from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there. "
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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 listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad bought me a $7.50 guitar. "
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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 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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" I like 'me'/'I' songs. "
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" That's what we grew up with - the good songs, the good lyrics, the good big-band stuff. I miss that era. "
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Up
Stuff
" I don't hold grudges. "
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Grudges
Hold
" I love symphonies. I love string sections. "
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I Love
Love
" I like to play golf. You know, make a little money, lose a little money. Get 10 bucks, lose 20 bucks. "
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Play
Golf
Know
" 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
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Somebody
" When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes. "
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Strangers
Two
Whole
" 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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Two
Change
I Can
" Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s. "
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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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Song
Now
" With the TV shows, you get eight zillion people watching you. I was really surprised at the way everything went. I knew television was powerful, but that was just... wow. "
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Way
Powerful
Television
" Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton. "
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Guitar
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Cotton
" I'd have to pick cotton for a year to make what I'd make in a week in L.A. "
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Week
" I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9. "
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Saw
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" I'm a take-me-as-l-am person, and all the rest is water under the bridge. You can't change yesterday any more than you can predict what's gonna happen tomorrow. "
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" I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying. "
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" God's law is God's law, period. Teach your children that. "
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