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.
ALAN JACKSONI think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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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 don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
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I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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I think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.
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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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because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
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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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If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world.
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You just write about things that happen.
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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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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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I’m hooked on my baby’s love, there ain’t nothing in the jug this strong.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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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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