Tonight I’m the designated drinker.
ALAN JACKSONbecause there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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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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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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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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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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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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I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.
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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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To think about the historical part of the Opry and how it’s played such a part in country music.
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I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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The music business doesn’t take up that much of my time.
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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’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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