Alan Jackson Quotes

I think every album you have, especially if it’s done well, you feel like you’re competing with yourself.
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Album Compete Done Especial Every Feel Think Well Yourself
Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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Day September Stop Turn World
To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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Backbone Country Person Songwriter
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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Hear Radio Probably Sing World Wrong
The music business doesn’t take up that much of my time.
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Business Much Music Take Taught Time
Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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Everybody Mom More Should
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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Antique Car Collection Little Of Old One Pretty
I’m usually just enjoying life.
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Enjoy Life Usually
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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All Along Kepp Kept Love Night Shadow Stolen Wrong
I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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Country Door Little People Route
Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane.
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Hurricane Insane Pour Something Strong Tall
When I was in high school, I don’t know that I really had big dreams.
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Big Dream High Know Really School
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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Anybody Apply Child Daughter Listen Song Specific Wrote
I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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Always Fan Like Make Music
I don’t write all my stuff.
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All Stuff Write
I could have done a hundred songs, really.
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Could Done Hundred Really Song
“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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After College Doctor Kind Life Part Song Wrote
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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Everything Felt Grew Like Need Nothing Something Whenever Young
It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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Cancer Scary World
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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Easier Emotion Hear Like Much People Sad Song Write
If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world.
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Anything Cynical Good People World
I didn’t realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn’t even know that until a year or two ago.
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Ago Banjo Daddy Fan Grandpa Huge Music Older Play Really Time Until
I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
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Retire See Worth
Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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Age Big Exposure Music Probably Young
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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Come Craft Hook Little Somebody Something Sound Time
I’m more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel.
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Basic Eater More People Person
I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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Cook Food Honey Need Real Sometimes

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