If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.
ALAN JACKSONThe music business doesn’t take up that much of my time.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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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 think every album you have, especially if it’s done well, you feel like you’re competing with yourself.
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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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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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Just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it’s going to take to get you on the radio.
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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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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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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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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin’ against that blue sky?
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Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I’m making.
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