Glen Campbell Quotes (27 Quotes)


    I thought it was pretty bad, ... I don't know how people can come in and do that, photographers and stuff. I just thought I got a bad rap on it 'cause they don't photograph everybody and throw them out in front of the public.

    I was standing in the old Western Studio 3 in Los Angeles looking at record albums. I saw a Johnny Rivers album with a song whose title intrigued me. I didn't know if 'By The Time I Get To Phoenix' was about the town or about the mythological bird coming out of the ashes.

    I've seen their ranging North Lake Tahoe Tourism and Community Investment plan - it could be improved upon, but everything could be improved upon. From what I can see, they're doing a good job.

    In 1969, Pod Rogers came up with the idea of getting on the 'Glen Campbell Good Time Hour,' Russell said.

    He'd come in and play piano jazz with the band until the AR man and the producer would go, 'Are you guys ready in there yet' And he said, 'Well, in just a while.' We'd be jamming. He wouldn't pay any attention to it. I remember the session -- (it was for) Lazy Hazy Days Of Summer.


    John Wayne's 9-year-old daughter really loved my show, and she wanted to meet me, ... So Duke got in his station wagon and drove down to the studio one day. That's how we met. ... He's the one who got me the part (in 'True Grit').

    I love playing in the South, ... I play lots of concerts in Cleveland and Boston and other cities up North, but I don't feel as comfortable as I do when I'm home in the South.

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

    I was in Studio 3 cutting a song with, I think, the Irish Rovers, ... I saw a record on the wall in the hall by Johnny Rivers. It had this song 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix.' And that made me curious. I wondered if it was about the city or the bird. So I listened to it, and I cried because it made me homesick. And if you can cry to Johnny Rivers, you know that's a good song. I recorded it the next day. And lo and behold it was one of the biggest records I ever had.

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

    I had albums before that, but once the TV show started everything really took off, ... I used that show to get every country act I could onto television.

    I knew 'Strangers in the Night' was a hit when we recorded it, ... We did it live in the studio with the whole orchestra. ... From doing all those sessions, I learned what I wanted to have when I made my own records.

    What if this animal had a disease What if it got loose and hurt someone We can't allow exotic animals to live with people like this.

    There we were, a musician and a quarterback acting in a Hollywood movie. Neither one of us had acted before - and our records are still clean, ... I didn't take to acting.

    My older brothers used to take me to the shows to see Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, all of that you know, the Western movies.

    I can't tell you how short a period it seems like -- 32 years -- to 1967. And now I'm up here getting the Pioneer Award. Then I was getting the go get 'em award.

    I think I've been blessed with the upbringing of parents who told you ... There's an old saying, 'If he tells you a hog weighs five pounds, wrap it up.' That pretty much says it.

    So John Wayne ... rolled in the saddle as his nag ran at a gallop in the snow toward the chest-high fence. The horse stretched, Duke rose, and the two cleared the fence with plenty of room.

    I still hear your sea waves crashing, while I watch the cannons flashing, I clean my gun and dream of Galveston,

    Classical Gas. You can play this song with a symphony, or you can play with a couple of guitars. That's what we're going to do.

    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.

    It hurts and I'm going to have to have it operated on. Sometimes, I have to use just three fingers on my left hand when I play.

    I miss him already. He was a unique person and a dear friend. If a record came on the radio, you'd know it was Waylon Jennings.

    I didn't like acting 'cause I didn't know how, ... I was scared to death. I had never done it before. And they didn't tell me anything. 'Say your line' I was so nervous, man, my voice sounded two octaves higher.

    Yeah, I've met real Wichita linemen before, ... They gave a pair of boots and climbing hooks that they use to climb poles. They really liked that song.

    Here I was, 68 years old, and it's the first time. Well, I said, 'I guess I've done that now.' I got a little special treatment. I got to stay in an area for non-violent prisoners and all that jazz. There was about four of us in the facility there.

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


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