Glen Campbell Quotes

United States, Singer
April 22, 1936 – August, 8, 2017.

Glen Travis Campbell was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and actor. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting a music and comedy variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television, from January 1969 through June 1972. He released over 70 albums in a career that spanned five decades, accumulating over 45 million record sales worldwide, including 12 gold albums, four platinum albums, and one double-platinum album

Also known as Guitarist, Songwriter, Television Host, Actor

Dean Martin. He was incredible.

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

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- Money
- Home
- House

I'm not an actor, really. I can play myself pretty well.

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- Pretty
The more you play music, the better you'll get.

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

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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.

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

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- Success
'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.

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- Good
- True
- Fun

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.

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- Country
- Rock
There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

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I would rather do live than any kind of lip-synching or something like that. I don't like to lip-synch.

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- Live
I have been very blessed with some great songs.

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- Great
- Blessed
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.

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- Good
- Music
- Song
Actually, I believe in the institution of marriage.

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- Believe
- Marriage

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

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- Music
That's what we grew up with - the good songs, the good lyrics, the good big-band stuff. I miss that era.

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- Up
- Good
- Band
I go to a great church.

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- Great
- Church
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.

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- Good
- Song
God only knows just how much I'm going to do, or not going to do.

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

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- People
- God
- Nice

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

Glen Campbell
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.

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

Glen Campbell
I like 'me'/'I' songs.

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