I think every album you have, especially if it’s done well, you feel like you’re competing with yourself.
ALAN JACKSONIf you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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A country song is a song about life.
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You just write about things that happen.
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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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To think about the historical part of the Opry and how it’s played such a part in country music.
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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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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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I’ve been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants.
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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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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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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’m usually just enjoying life.
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I’ve always stood up for country music.
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A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
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Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane.
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