Glen Campbell Quotes

I enjoy making music and take my time to do everything until it is 'perfect.'

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

It takes so much energy and time to make one song perfect.

That's all I ever do, just try and do the best I can and cater to the song, cater to the music.

Basically, I want to prove to everybody that I can write music - good music.

In music, I don't think there's any need to be an all-rounder and do everything yourself. Play to your strengths, and do what you feel. Or do whatever the material itself demands. In this case, I felt like it would benefit from me singing, and I wanted it to have that sound.

I like to think about the quality, content, and concept for my music because I think these are the most important things and it just molds everything together.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I went out of my way to make 'Immortal' sound perfect. 'Immortal,' 'Just What I Am,' and 'King Wizard,' those are perfect beats. Not a lot of people can perform on them. I say that meaning they're tailor-made for me.

I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.

I'm very strong creatively, in my music.

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.