Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love
ALAN JACKSONThey’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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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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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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The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along.
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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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“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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Flesh is weak, but love is strong.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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I’m more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel.
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I could have done a hundred songs, really.
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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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I’ve always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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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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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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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.
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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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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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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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Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.
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Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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And just about anybody you can think of who has made country music has been on that stage. That’s what makes you so nervous.
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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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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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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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I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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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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I probably should put a little more energy into it.
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