A biography for Glen Campbellhasn’t been written yet.
“God saved me.”
“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's law is God's law, period. Teach your children that.”
“I'll tell you, my dad played and sang, and it didn't take me long to figure out that playing a guitar was a whole lot better than getting ahold of a hoe handle or chopping cotton, man.”
“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.”
“When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes.”
“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.”
“I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.”
“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 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 from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there.”
“I am just trying to do a song the best possible way I can.”
“I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's.”
“God only knows just how much I'm going to do, or not going to do.”
“With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.'”
“Actually, I believe in the institution of marriage.”
“Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.”
“I love singing. I just love it.”
“Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.”
“I have been very blessed with some great songs.”