Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don’t know?
ALAN JACKSONI’ve been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants.
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If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world.
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What I enjoy doing more than anything is.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
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I could have done a hundred songs, really.
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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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If you can last until you’re 40 years old, hopefully you’ll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.
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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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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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As long as I’m still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets,
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I’ve always stood up for country music.
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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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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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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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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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You think about people like Hank Williams, who stood on that spot of wood, and Mr. Acuff, and, of course, George Jones.
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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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There’s no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.
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I probably should put a little more energy into it.
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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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But most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.
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You just write about things that happen.
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Half of them I’d hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn’t even know it.
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I’m hooked on my baby’s love, there ain’t nothing in the jug this strong.
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Flesh is weak, but love is strong.
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