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 JACKSONI’m more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
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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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I’ve been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants.
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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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He’s written some great songs. I thought that “Blues Man” was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue
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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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But most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.
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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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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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I’m hooked on my baby’s love, there ain’t nothing in the jug this strong.
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The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.
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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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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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“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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Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..
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As long as I’m still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets,
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I think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.
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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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A country song is a song about life.
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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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You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time.
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When I was in high school, I don’t know that I really had big dreams.
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Love is stolen in the shadows of the night. Though it’s wrong all along, it keeps going on as long as they keep it out of sight.
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