If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you’d say, “Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,” but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn’t apply to anybody that has a child.
ALAN JACKSONDid you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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It’s only half past twelve but I don’t care, it’s 5 O’clock somewhere.
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I’m just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren’t the same thing over and over.
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Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don’t know?
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To think about the historical part of the Opry and how it’s played such a part in country music.
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My mother kept asking me, “When are you going to do a gospel album?” And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album.
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Just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it’s going to take to get you on the radio.
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Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I’ve ever had has been about 50-50 songs I’ve written or co-written and other people’s songs.
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But most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.
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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.
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I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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When I was in high school, I don’t know that I really had big dreams.
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The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along.
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The music business doesn’t take up that much of my time.
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“After 17” is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that’s kind of where I’m at in that part of my life.
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