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title: "1 Music Wrote Quotes By Chuck Barris"
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> [I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass. I would always have liked to play in a band. I would always have liked to be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-barris/i-went-out-and-started-on-my-way-up-in-television-i-wrote-music-i/)

[Chuck Barris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-barris/)

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## More by Chuck Barris

> [If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-barris/if-you-stick-in-the-business-of-being-creative-you-get-hurt-and/)

[Chuck Barris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-barris/)

> [One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-barris/one-piece-of-pie-is-delicious-fourteen-pieces-are-obviously-nauseating/)

[Chuck Barris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-barris/)

> [When you are young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be Einstein. You might be DiMaggio. Then you get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-barris/when-you-are-young-your-potential-is-infinite-you-might-do-anything/)

[Chuck Barris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-barris/)

> [Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-barris/television-is-not-my-favorite-medium-my-favorite-form-of/)

[Chuck Barris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-barris/)

> [The closest I came to doing anything that I wanted to do was to try and check and see what industries were just starting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-barris/the-closest-i-came-to-doing-anything-that-i-wanted-to-do-was-to-try/)

[Chuck Barris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-barris/)

> [Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-barris/helplessness-is-such-a-rotten-feeling-there-s-nothing-you-can-do/)

[Chuck Barris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-barris/)

> [Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-barris/spontaneity-is-such-an-entertaining-facet-of-show-business/)

[Chuck Barris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-barris/)

> [I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-barris/i-could-never-do-a-show-or-be-a-personality-like-howard-stern-where/)

[Chuck Barris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-barris/)

> [I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-barris/i-think-if-you-re-behind-the-times-you-ve-failed-i-think-the-only-way/)

[Chuck Barris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-barris/)

> [“I flopped back onto my pillows. I wanted to begin loathing the new day in comfort.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-barris/i-flopped-back-onto-my-pillows-i-wanted-to-begin-loathing-the-new-day/)

[Chuck Barris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-barris/)

> [I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass. I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-barris/i-went-out-and-started-on-my-way-up-in-television-i-wrote-music-i/)

[Chuck Barris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-barris/)

> [I came up with a new game-show idea recently. It's called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-barris/i-came-up-with-a-new-game-show-idea-recently-it-s-called-the-old-game/)

[Chuck Barris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-barris/)

> [The Gong Show was the greatest scam of all time. It was simple: We wanted to do a talent show. There weren't any venues…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-barris/the-gong-show-was-the-greatest-scam-of-all-time-it-was-simple-we/)

[Chuck Barris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-barris/)

> [The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-barris/the-gong-show-provided-me-with-five-years-of-the-happiest-times-of-my/)

[Chuck Barris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-barris/)

> [Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-barris/fifty-percent-of-something-is-better-than-than-one-hundred-percent-of/)

[Chuck Barris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-barris/)

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