There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.
Glen Campbell
We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke.
Life is too short not to enjoy it.
There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.
I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying.
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.
When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes.
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 can't be alone.
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 have been blessed. I really have.
'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.
I love singing. I just love it.
Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.
We moved to Los Angeles because our daughter wanted to go to Pepperdine.
I worked my butt off.
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.
Actually, I believe in the institution of marriage.
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.
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.
Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have.
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.
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 am just trying to do a song the best possible way I can.
I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.
I'm an avid golfer.
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've been through a lot of changes.
With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.'
I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.
God only knows just how much I'm going to do, or not going to do.
Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.
If we grew it, we ate it. If Daddy shot it, Mamma cooked it.
All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.
I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's.
I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better.
I'm really not a songwriter, so if I hear a song, I feel it and like it, I'll do it. But I'll make it the way I want to hear it.
I just tell you, the Lord's been good to me. Even if I was a rounder, He's been really, really nice to me.
Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.
God saved 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.
I spent some time in Hell.
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.
Some things I don't want to remember.
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.
I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.
Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.
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.
