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 JACKSONPour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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I’ve always stood up for country music.
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I’m hooked on my baby’s love, there ain’t nothing in the jug this strong.
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I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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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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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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A country song is a song about life.
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Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love
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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.
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Tonight I’m the designated drinker.
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I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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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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Oklahoma’s always been good to me.
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The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along.
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I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
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I could have done a hundred songs, really.
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I don’t write all my stuff.
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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 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 probably should put a little more energy into it.
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What I enjoy doing more than anything is.
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For every one bad one, there’s a thousand good ones.
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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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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time.
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You just write about things that happen.
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