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.
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.
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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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Oklahoma’s always been good to me.
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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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I could have done a hundred songs, really.
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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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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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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
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The music business doesn’t take up that much of my time.
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What I enjoy doing more than anything is.
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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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They’re just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It’s that way everywhere.
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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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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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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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The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along.
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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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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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It’s only half past twelve but I don’t care, it’s 5 O’clock somewhere.
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My mother kept asking me, “When are you going to do a gospel album?” And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album.
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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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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love
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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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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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