Glen Campbell

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

“I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's.”

“I'm an avid golfer.”

“I realize you are going to make mistakes through life. Just don't make any bad ones, you know. Like all of my records are perfect records, but I did make mistakes on them.”

“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.”

“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...”

“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.”

“The very first big one I had was 'Turn Around and Look At Me.'”

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

“We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke.”

“I can read a chord chart, but I couldn't read a note chart.”

“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.”

“There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.”

“With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.'”

“Dean Martin. He was incredible.”

“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.”

“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 just wanted to do a music show, with the whole realm of music from Ella Fitzgerald to rock bands like Cream to Kenny Rogers. We had a lot of country, but we did every kind of music. The Mo...”

“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 peo...”