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.
ALAN JACKSONThe older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don’t need, what wears you out and what’s important.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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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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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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I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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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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Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin’ against that blue sky?
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I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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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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A country song is a song about life.
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I think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.
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I’ve always stood up for country music.
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You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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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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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.
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A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
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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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Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I’m making.
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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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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’ve had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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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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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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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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When I was in high school, I don’t know that I really had big dreams.
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Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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