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 JACKSONProbably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.
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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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Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don’t know?
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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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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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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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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
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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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Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin’ against that blue sky?
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I’m more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel.
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I’m just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren’t the same thing over and over.
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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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because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
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