A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
ALAN JACKSONAnd radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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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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If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.
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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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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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Oklahoma’s always been good to me.
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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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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’m just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren’t the same thing over and over.
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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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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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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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