Glen Campbell Quotes

'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

I love Glen Campbell. He never gets a mention.

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.

The records in the house I really remember were, well, Glen Campbell's 'Wichita Lineman' and 'Galveston.' Even as a kid, I knew these songs were glorious. My dad also had records by Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Waylon Jennings, and then there was also the Eagles and Don Henley. Anything Texas, which includes Don Henley, was big.

What I'm trying to do is tell good stories through music. I think some of the best songs, the best country songs, are stories.

I've come to find out everybody loves ol' David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies and simple chord changes.

I looooove Jason Isbell.

I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.

Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang their own stuff, I really admired.

Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that.

I don't think I could make a good film, but I could definitely score a good film.

I studied film scoring and orchestration and conducting and arranging in my twenties, and I scored a lot of television shows and other things.

I play keyboards and have played on many a Toto record.

Gilbert Hotel' is my first all-acoustic record.

I started at such a young age learning every style of music, the country and the bluegrass and the western swing and the rock - everything.

I studied arranging and orchestration a number of years ago, so I have a home studio and arrange about three-fourths of my songs on the computer. Since writing orchestration is tedious, I often put an arrangement on the keyboard and let someone better-qualified finish it.

I just always loved the storytelling aspect. Even with the production that's happening right now in music, I still think the core of country songs are very stripped down, and they tell a story in the most pure sense.

I think I've been playing bass for as long as I've played guitar, and I love them both.

I write all of my songs from scratch, so the one thing I love about EDM is the way a song transforms into a piece of art, and how the different sounds can change the feel of the record.

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

The first Vampire Weekend record was the first full-length album that I produced.

I really want to do a cover of Joan Armatrading.