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.
ALAN JACKSONHee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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For every one bad one, there’s a thousand good ones.
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I 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.
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I’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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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
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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’m more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel.
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Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane.
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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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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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You just write about things that happen.
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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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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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