I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
ALAN JACKSONMy mother kept asking me, “When are you going to do a gospel album?” And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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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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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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Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.
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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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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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Just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it’s going to take to get you on the radio.
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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.
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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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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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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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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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The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along.
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You just write about things that happen.
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Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin’ against that blue sky?
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