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 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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For every one bad one, there’s a thousand good ones.
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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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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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I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They’re really not.
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I don’t write all my stuff.
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All you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there.
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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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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’ve always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you’ve got to have a tour to support that.
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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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If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.
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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 think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.
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A country song is a song about life.
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