I didn’t realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn’t even know that until a year or two ago.
ALAN JACKSONI’ve always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you’ve got to have a tour to support that.
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They’re just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It’s that way everywhere.
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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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Somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.
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I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars.
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The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don’t need, what wears you out and what’s important.
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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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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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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.
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I’ve been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants.
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All you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there.
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A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
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I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I’ve gotten older, I think. I noticed that.
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I like to write sad songs. They’re much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don’t want to hear them as much.
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I’ve had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
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