Top 45 Glen Campbell Quotes

Great stories start with great opening lines. ‘I’m a lineman for the county‘ – what a great way to start a song.

The very first big one I had was ‘Turn Around and Look At Me.’

I’m a take-me-as-l-am person, and all the rest is water under the bridge. You can’t change yesterday any more than you can predict what’s gonna happen tomorrow.

I’ve been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.

I’ve been through a lot of changes.

You don’t play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you’ll be all right. That’s always worked for me.

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.

Music is music. It doesn’t matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

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

I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.

I love symphonies. I love string sections.

I go to a great church.

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.

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

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

Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.

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

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.

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.

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.

I’ve laughed, and I’ve cried. Laughing has got it over crying.

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

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 was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth… and that people can change for the better.

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 felt my music wasn’t aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.

I like ‘me’/’I’ songs.

I’d have to pick cotton for a year to make what I’d make in a week in L.A.

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.

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

I spent some time in Hell.

Do everything according to God, and be nice, and treat other people the way you would like to be treated.

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.

‘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.

Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don’t blame somebody else for your misfortunes.

Elvis was a great singer. He really was.

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.

Hank Williams‘ music – it just doesn’t go away, for some reason.

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.

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.

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

Life is too short not to enjoy it.

A good song is a good song.

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.

Dean Martin. He was incredible.