To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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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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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Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.
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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 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 more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel.
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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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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.
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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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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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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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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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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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I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I’ve gotten older, I think. I noticed that.
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You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy.
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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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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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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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He’s written some great songs. I thought that “Blues Man” was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
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And just about anybody you can think of who has made country music has been on that stage. That’s what makes you so nervous.
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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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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 every album you have, especially if it’s done well, you feel like you’re competing with yourself.
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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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Flesh is weak, but love is strong.
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