Half of them I’d hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn’t even know it.
ALAN JACKSONIf anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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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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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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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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“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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I’m usually just enjoying life.
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Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane.
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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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To think about the historical part of the Opry and how it’s played such a part in country music.
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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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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’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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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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But most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.
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You just write about things that happen.
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