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.
ALAN JACKSONI’m just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren’t the same thing over and over.
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Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I’ve ever had has been about 50-50 songs I’ve written or co-written and other people’s songs.
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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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I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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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 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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If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.
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What I enjoy doing more than anything is.
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Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They’re really not.
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But most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.
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Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane.
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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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If you can last until you’re 40 years old, hopefully you’ll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.
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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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I’ve always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you’ve got to have a tour to support that.
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