I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
ALAN JACKSONDid you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don’t know?
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
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Half of them I’d hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn’t even know it.
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I probably should put a little more energy into it.
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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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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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I think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.
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I’ve always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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They’re just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It’s that way everywhere.
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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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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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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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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.
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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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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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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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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don’t need, what wears you out and what’s important.
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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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Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?
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I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
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As long as I’m still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets,
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What I enjoy doing more than anything is.
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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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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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If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.
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