My mother kept asking me, “When are you going to do a gospel album?” And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album.
ALAN JACKSONHee 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 think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.
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Tonight I’m the designated drinker.
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For every one bad one, there’s a thousand good ones.
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A country song is a song about life.
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Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.
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Love is stolen in the shadows of the night. Though it’s wrong all along, it keeps going on as long as they keep it out of sight.
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Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I’m making.
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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 could have done a hundred songs, really.
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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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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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If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world.
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And just about anybody you can think of who has made country music has been on that stage. That’s what makes you so nervous.
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