132 Quotes by Glen Campbell

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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