because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
ALAN JACKSONLove 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.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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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’m usually just enjoying life.
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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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You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy.
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The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.
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I think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.
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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 have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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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’ve had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
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If you can last until you’re 40 years old, hopefully you’ll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.
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When I was in high school, I don’t know that I really had big dreams.
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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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You think about people like Hank Williams, who stood on that spot of wood, and Mr. Acuff, and, of course, George Jones.
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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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Oklahoma’s always been good to me.
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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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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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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.
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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 could have done a hundred songs, really.
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It’s only half past twelve but I don’t care, it’s 5 O’clock somewhere.
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For every one bad one, there’s a thousand good ones.
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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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Tonight I’m the designated drinker.
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Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..
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