Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane.
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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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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There’s no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.
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I think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.
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Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue
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I probably should put a little more energy into it.
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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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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 didn’t realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn’t even know that until a year or two ago.
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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 mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I’ve gotten older, I think. I noticed that.
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Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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A country song is a song about life.
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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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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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I could have done a hundred songs, really.
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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.
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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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I’m just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren’t the same thing over and over.
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I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars.
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You just write about things that happen.
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The music business doesn’t take up that much of my time.
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When I was in high school, I don’t know that I really had big dreams.
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I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..
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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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The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don’t need, what wears you out and what’s important.
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