Glen Campbell Quotes

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 and bring about my interpretation of them.

I love Glen Campbell. He never gets a mention.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.

When I hear or see his name, I see the Glen I've always known. There will never, ever be another Glen Campbell.

When we lost Glen Campbell, we lost an American original. We also lost a really good man.

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.

A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

My version of 'Fast Car' is in the same key as the original. To me that is where all the emotion lies.

I listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash - a lot of old country singers. Patsy Cline.

By the age of 15, I knew over 40 Hank Williams songs.

I'm in love with the way that Ella Fitzgerald delivered a lyric. She would deliver a lyric with the kind of clarity that would make you wonder why it was written, and make you think about the writer. I think every writer hopes an Ella of any genre or anytime gets a hold of their work and works the song like that.

I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.

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

We need all those divisions of country music, firing on all cylinders.

When you sit down and see someone play at a piano, you don't think, 'Wow - what a fantastic machine.'

To stand out, I just use my talents. I rap, and I sing as well. With that being said, people kind of know me for bringing that emotion in music.

I wish I could have been in the control room at Capitol Studio A listening to the playback of 'Wichita Lineman' the first time it came into the atmosphere. It must have been a perfect moment in time.

It feels weird to play songs that I don't really... feel any more.

The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.

Our job is just to keep making great-sounding music and great performances.

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

Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves.

I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else.

Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.