Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane.
ALAN JACKSONTo me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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Flesh is weak, but love is strong.
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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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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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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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Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?
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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 always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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You just write about things that happen.
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Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue
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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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“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 don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
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I probably should put a little more energy into it.
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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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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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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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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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I’m just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren’t the same thing over and over.
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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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I’m more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel.
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Oklahoma’s always been good to me.
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For every one bad one, there’s a thousand good ones.
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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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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.
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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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