Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin’ against that blue sky?
ALAN JACKSONI think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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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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because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
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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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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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I’m more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel.
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I’ve always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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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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Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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I’ve been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants.
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And just about anybody you can think of who has made country music has been on that stage. That’s what makes you so nervous.
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I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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I’m usually just enjoying life.
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The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along.
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I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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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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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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A country song is a song about life.
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Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I’m making.
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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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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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You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time.
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I don’t write all my stuff.
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I’ve had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
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I probably should put a little more energy into it.
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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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