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.
ALAN JACKSONMaking music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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They’re just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It’s that way everywhere.
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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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It’s only half past twelve but I don’t care, it’s 5 O’clock somewhere.
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If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world.
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I’ve always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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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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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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My mother kept asking me, “When are you going to do a gospel album?” And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album.
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You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time.
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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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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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To think about the historical part of the Opry and how it’s played such a part in country music.
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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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Flesh is weak, but love is strong.
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