A biography for Glen Campbellhasn’t been written yet.
“With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.”
“TV is just an incredible media.”
“I like to play golf. You know, make a little money, lose a little money. Get 10 bucks, lose 20 bucks.”
“The more you play music, the better you'll get.”
“I like 'me'/'I' songs.”
“I got to play with the big guys, the Wrecking Crew. They just blew me away. I learned a lot of stuff from those guys.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“I love symphonies. I love string sections.”
“I play guitar, and it's not a prop.”
“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.”
“There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.”
“Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.”
“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.”
“I would rather do live than any kind of lip-synching or something like that. I don't like to lip-synch.”
“Some things I don't want to remember.”
“I go to a great church.”
“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.”
“Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have.”