“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.
ALAN JACKSONI’ve always stood up for country music.
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I’ve always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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The music business doesn’t take up that much of my time.
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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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You just write about things that happen.
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I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn’t have when I was young.
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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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If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world.
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Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?
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Flesh is weak, but love is strong.
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I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I’ve gotten older, I think. I noticed that.
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The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.
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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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Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
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Oklahoma’s always been good to me.
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Tonight I’m the designated drinker.
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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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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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I probably should put a little more energy into it.
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What I enjoy doing more than anything is.
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I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars.
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I’ve always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you’ve got to have a tour to support that.
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I didn’t realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn’t even know that until a year or two ago.
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I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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A country song is a song about life.
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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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