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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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" I have been very blessed with some great songs. "

" 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 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. "

" God only knows just how much I'm going to do, or not going to do. "

" There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience. "

" I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I worked my butt off. "

" Actually, I believe in the institution of marriage. "

" There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart. "

" I've been through a lot of changes. "

" I like 'me'/'I' songs. "

" 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. "

" To play with a symphony today is just fabulous. "

" I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country. "

" Elvis was a great singer. He really was. "

" Dean Martin. He was incredible. "

" I'm from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there. "

" I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9. "

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

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

" I realize you are going to make mistakes through life. Just don't make any bad ones, you know. Like all of my records are perfect records, but I did make mistakes on them. "

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

" I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind. "

" I spent some time in Hell. "

" I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember. "

" Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s. "

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

" When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes. "