Tonight I’m the designated drinker.
ALAN JACKSONHee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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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 love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time.
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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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If you can last until you’re 40 years old, hopefully you’ll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.
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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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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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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars.
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A country song is a song about life.
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I’ve always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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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 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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Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin’ against that blue sky?
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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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I’m just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren’t the same thing over and over.
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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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Just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it’s going to take to get you on the radio.
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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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I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
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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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“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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Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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For every one bad one, there’s a thousand good ones.
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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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