I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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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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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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 don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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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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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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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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I’m usually just enjoying life.
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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.
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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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I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
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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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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 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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You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy.
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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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