Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
ALAN JACKSONYou just write about things that happen.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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A country song is a song about life.
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I’ve always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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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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If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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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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Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I’m making.
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I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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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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I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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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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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 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.
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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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