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.
ALAN JACKSONThe loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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Flesh is weak, but love is strong.
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I’m usually just enjoying life.
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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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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 don’t write all my stuff.
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My mother kept asking me, “When are you going to do a gospel album?” And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album.
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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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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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Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin’ against that blue sky?
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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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I could have done a hundred songs, really.
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I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane.
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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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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 just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren’t the same thing over and over.
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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
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You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time.
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A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
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I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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You just write about things that happen.
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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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“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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Oklahoma’s always been good to me.
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