I like to write sad songs. They’re much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don’t want to hear them as much.
ALAN JACKSONAll 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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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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The music business doesn’t take up that much of my time.
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Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I’m making.
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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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“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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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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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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You just write about things that happen.
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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’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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I don’t write all my stuff.
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I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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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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Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love
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I could have done a hundred songs, really.
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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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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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Tonight I’m the designated drinker.
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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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I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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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 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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I’m just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren’t the same thing over and over.
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