A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
ALAN JACKSONYou just write about things that happen.
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I probably should put a little more energy into it.
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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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The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along.
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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
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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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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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Flesh is weak, but love is strong.
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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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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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If you can last until you’re 40 years old, hopefully you’ll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.
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You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time.
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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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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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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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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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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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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 have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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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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You just write about things that happen.
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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.
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I don’t write all my stuff.
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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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I’m just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren’t the same thing over and over.
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