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.
ALAN JACKSONThe music business doesn’t take up that much of my time.
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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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Flesh is weak, but love is strong.
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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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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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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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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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My mother kept asking me, “When are you going to do a gospel album?” And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album.
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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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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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Oklahoma’s always been good to me.
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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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because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
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Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love
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Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I’m making.
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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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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.
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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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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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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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A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
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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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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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When I was in high school, I don’t know that I really had big dreams.
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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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For every one bad one, there’s a thousand good ones.
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