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.
ALAN JACKSONI 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.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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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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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 don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
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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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I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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I could have done a hundred songs, really.
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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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If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world.
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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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It’s only half past twelve but I don’t care, it’s 5 O’clock somewhere.
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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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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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Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
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For every one bad one, there’s a thousand good ones.
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