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

Glen Campbell

Credit

Money

Parents

" '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. "

" I have been blessed. I really have. "

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

" 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 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. "

Glen Campbell

Awesome

Laugh

" You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes. "

" 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. "

" Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason. "

Glen Campbell

Music

Go Away

" 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. "

Glen Campbell

Life

Money

" I'm not an actor, really. I can play myself pretty well. "

" Ah, the Wrecking Crew! They played on everything that came out of L.A. Oh, that was a good band. You really enjoyed going to work. You played for everyone; it didn't matter what it was. "

" I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" That's what we grew up with - the good songs, the good lyrics, the good big-band stuff. I miss that era. "

Glen Campbell

Good

Stuff

" I needed a capo - a clamp to hold down the strings - so my daddy made me one out of a corn on the cob and a rubber band. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke. "

Glen Campbell

Silly

Electricity

" I gave John Wayne the push he needed to get that Oscar. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I play guitar, and it's not a prop. "

" 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. "

Glen Campbell

Work

Remember

" I've been every way there is to be. "

" I can't be alone. "

Glen Campbell

Alone

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