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 JACKSONIf anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world.
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Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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Flesh is weak, but love is strong.
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I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I’ve gotten older, I think. I noticed that.
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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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I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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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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For every one bad one, there’s a thousand good ones.
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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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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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I’m usually just enjoying life.
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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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If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.
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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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I think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.
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I could have done a hundred songs, really.
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When I was in high school, I don’t know that I really had big dreams.
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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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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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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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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 think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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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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because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
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