Alan Jackson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.”
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“I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.”
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“I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.”
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“Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love”
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“Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?”
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“The fan base that I've had all these years has come along. 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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“Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.”
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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. 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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“Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.”
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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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“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 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. And radio definitely doesn't; they want that positive, uptempo thing.”
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“I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.”
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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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“If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - 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. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.”
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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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“I think I've always approached making albums pretty much the same way. I'm just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren't the same thing over and over.”
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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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“Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. 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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“I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles...”
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“I could have done a hundred songs, really. 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 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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“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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“Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue”
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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, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.”
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