because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
ALAN JACKSONDid you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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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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Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane.
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I’ve always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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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 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 music business doesn’t take up that much of my time.
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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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Somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.
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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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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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I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I’ve gotten older, I think. I noticed that.
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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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You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time.
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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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