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 JACKSONEverybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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I could have done a hundred songs, really.
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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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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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But most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.
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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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“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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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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What I enjoy doing more than anything is.
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A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
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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 love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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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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I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
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I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars.
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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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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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The music business doesn’t take up that much of my time.
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Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue
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I’m more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel.
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Tonight I’m the designated drinker.
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You just write about things that happen.
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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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Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..
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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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Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
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