Oklahoma’s always been good to me.
ALAN JACKSONSomebody 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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But most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.
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The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along.
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You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy.
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You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time.
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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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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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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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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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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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What I enjoy doing more than anything is.
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Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin’ against that blue sky?
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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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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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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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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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It’s only half past twelve but I don’t care, it’s 5 O’clock somewhere.
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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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The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.
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Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?
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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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The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don’t need, what wears you out and what’s important.
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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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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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When I was in high school, I don’t know that I really had big dreams.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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