If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world.
ALAN JACKSONSome of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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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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Tonight I’m the designated drinker.
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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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because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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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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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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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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The music business doesn’t take up that much of my time.
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Half of them I’d hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn’t even know it.
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It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.
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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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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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The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.
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