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" 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. "

Glen Campbell

Way

Powerful

Television

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" I can't be alone. "

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" 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. "

" Roger Miller opened a lot of people's eyes to the possibilities of country music, and it's making more impact now because it's earthy material: stories and things that happen to everyday people. I call it 'people music.' "

" A good song is a good song. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" They could never put me in a slot. They couldn't say Glen was 'country,' 'pop' or 'rock.' I'm crock, OK? A cross between country and rock. Call me crock. "

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Call

Say

" Life is too short not to enjoy it. "

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

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

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

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

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Singer

Great

" I spent some time in Hell. "

" 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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Work

Remember

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

" I've always been forgetful. "

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Always

Been

" 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. "

" What I try to do is live with myself and please me. If I can't do that, I can't please anybody else or live with anybody else. "

Glen Campbell

Try

Please

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

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Songs

" 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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Good

Stuff

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

" 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. "

" I don't hold grudges. "

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Grudges

Hold