Glen Campbell Quotes

Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.

I love Hank Williams. Who doesn't love Hank Williams? So my choices are not that surprising.

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn't this be comparable? Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later, and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

To have a body of work is a blessing - when you have songs that have been around generation after generation that they call timeless music, you can work that for a long time.

The day I heard Hank Williams for the first time, my life changed.

Well, it's hard not to love Hank Williams!

Hank Williams was playing rock-n-roll before rock-n-roll was.

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.

I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.

It's rather nice to think that a song such as 'What Kind of Fool Am I?' is a standard that will be around for many, many years.

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.

I did an album called 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.' I sang the song on 'Hee Haw.'

That's a good sign for a movie: When it becomes part of the lexicon and pop culture for an entire generation. I've been in many movies, luckily, that get quoted.

Prince is gone. But the music will go on.

I never met Johnny Cash personally, but I feel like I did because I listened to so much of his music, and even though he's gone, it's still there: you can go pull a vinyl record out and hear his personal thoughts and his voice and feel connected to him.

To me, Hank Williams is the first rock-and-roll star.