If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world.
ALAN JACKSONI’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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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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The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along.
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Flesh is weak, but love is 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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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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Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin’ against that blue sky?
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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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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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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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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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I could have done a hundred songs, really.
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What I enjoy doing more than anything is.
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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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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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You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time.
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A country song is a song about life.
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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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If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.
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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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You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy.
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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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I’m just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren’t the same thing over and over.
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Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
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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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Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..
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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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