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.
ALAN JACKSONI don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.
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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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I think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.
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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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The music business doesn’t take up that much of my time.
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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 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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To think about the historical part of the Opry and how it’s played such a part in country music.
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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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I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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I’ve always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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I probably should put a little more energy into it.
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When I was in high school, I don’t know that I really had big dreams.
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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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