“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 JACKSONThere’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.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love
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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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If you can last until you’re 40 years old, hopefully you’ll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.
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I’m usually just enjoying life.
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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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But most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.
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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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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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If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.
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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 think every album you have, especially if it’s done well, you feel like you’re competing with yourself.
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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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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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