I think every album you have, especially if it’s done well, you feel like you’re competing with yourself.
ALAN JACKSONWembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue
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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 have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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But most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.
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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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You think about people like Hank Williams, who stood on that spot of wood, and Mr. Acuff, and, of course, George Jones.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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I’m more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel.
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My 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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Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I’ve ever had has been about 50-50 songs I’ve written or co-written and other people’s songs.
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Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love
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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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A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
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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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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 think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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I’ve always stood up for country music.
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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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I’ve always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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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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Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue
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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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For every one bad one, there’s a thousand good ones.
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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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