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 JACKSONIf you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.
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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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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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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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Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?
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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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The music business doesn’t take up that much of my time.
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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 think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.
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When I was in high school, I don’t know that I really had big dreams.
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Love is stolen in the shadows of the night. Though it’s wrong all along, it keeps going on as long as they keep it out of sight.
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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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I’ve always stood up for country music.
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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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Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I’m making.
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To think about the historical part of the Opry and how it’s played such a part in country music.
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