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

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" 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 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 still love making music. And I still love performing for my fans. I'd like to thank them for sticking with me through thick and thin. "

" If we grew it, we ate it. If Daddy shot it, Mamma cooked it. "

" 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. "

" 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 go to a great church. "

" I'm running my life according to what I know to be true from the Bible and the old scribes. "

" TV is just an incredible media. "

" If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material. "

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

" I love singing. I just love it. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm an avid golfer. "

" I have been blessed. I really have. "

" Dean Martin. He was incredible. "

" 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. "

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

" Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song. "

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

" 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. "

" The more you play music, the better you'll get. "

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

" I would rather do live than any kind of lip-synching or something like that. I don't like to lip-synch. "

" 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. "

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

" I spent some time in Hell. "

" I am just trying to do a song the best possible way I can. "

" I can't be alone. "