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.
ALAN JACKSONHalf of them I’d hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn’t even know it.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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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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Somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.
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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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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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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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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 mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I’ve gotten older, I think. I noticed that.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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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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Oklahoma’s always been good to me.
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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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Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don’t know?
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Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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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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Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?
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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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Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..
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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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The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.
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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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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin’ against that blue sky?
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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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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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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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