Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They’re really not.
ALAN JACKSONDid you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?
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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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A country song is a song about life.
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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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I don’t write all my stuff.
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You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy.
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I think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.
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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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If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world.
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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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I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
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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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Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I’m making.
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If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you’d say, “Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,” but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn’t apply to anybody that has a child.
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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 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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