Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
ALAN JACKSONEverybody 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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Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane.
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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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Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love
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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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But most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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He’s written some great songs. I thought that “Blues Man” was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
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I’m more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel.
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A country song is a song about life.
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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 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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Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I’m making.
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I’ve always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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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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