I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
ALAN JACKSONI don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
ALAN JACKSONA lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
ALAN JACKSONI’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
ALAN JACKSONA country song is a song about life.
ALAN JACKSONProbably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.
ALAN JACKSONIf 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 JACKSONFaith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love
ALAN JACKSONI’ve always stood up for country music.
ALAN JACKSONHee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
ALAN JACKSONI 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.
ALAN JACKSONAnd radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
ALAN JACKSONTo me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
ALAN JACKSONI don’t write all my stuff.
ALAN JACKSONI grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn’t have when I was young.
ALAN JACKSONI’ve always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
ALAN JACKSONI have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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