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 JACKSONTonight I’m the designated drinker.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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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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Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don’t know?
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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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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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because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
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Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They’re really not.
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You just write about things that happen.
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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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“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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It’s only half past twelve but I don’t care, it’s 5 O’clock somewhere.
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It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.
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I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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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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I’m usually just enjoying life.
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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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