My mother kept asking me, “When are you going to do a gospel album?” And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album.
ALAN JACKSONTo think about the historical part of the Opry and how it’s played such a part in country music.
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You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time.
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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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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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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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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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I didn’t realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn’t even know that until a year or two ago.
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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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I think every album you have, especially if it’s done well, you feel like you’re competing with yourself.
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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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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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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 think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.
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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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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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