Quotes from Glen Campbell

God saved me.

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

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

Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have.

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.

Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.

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.

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

There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

I gave John Wayne the push he needed to get that Oscar.

I like to play golf. You know, make a little money, lose a little money. Get 10 bucks, lose 20 bucks.

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 don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

I love symphonies. I love string sections.

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

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.

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.

I learned it was crucial to play right on the edge of the beat... It makes you drive the song more. You're ahead of the beat, but you're not.

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

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

Dean Martin. He was incredible.

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.