Quotes from Glen Campbell

I play guitar, and it's not a prop.

Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.

Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.

I'm an avid golfer.

A good song is a good song.

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

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.

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.

'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 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 Monkees were on, and so was Johnny Cash.

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.

When I did 'Wichita Lineman,' it was as good as I could do it, so I keep doing it that way. It's such a haunting song.

I worked my butt off.

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.

Life is too short not to enjoy it.

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.

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.

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.

All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.

I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.

Actually, I believe in the institution of marriage.

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'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.

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