Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..
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.
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You just write about things that happen.
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What I enjoy doing more than anything is.
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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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I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars.
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A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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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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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love
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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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I probably should put a little more energy into it.
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Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane.
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Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue
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I’m more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel.
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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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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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The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along.
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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 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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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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To think about the historical part of the Opry and how it’s played such a part in country music.
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I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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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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The music business doesn’t take up that much of my time.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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