It’s only half past twelve but I don’t care, it’s 5 O’clock somewhere.
ALAN JACKSONbecause there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
More Alan Jackson Quotes
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Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue
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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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Somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.
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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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Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?
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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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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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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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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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A country song is a song about life.
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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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I think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.
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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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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 usually just enjoying life.
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Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I’m making.
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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’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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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’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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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 have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time.
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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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