Quotes from Glen Campbell

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 like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

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

There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.

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.

Some things I don't want to remember.

If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material.

I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.

Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.

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

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

I'm from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there.

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 people. I call it 'people music.'

When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes.

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.

Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.

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