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“A country song is a song about life.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Country #Song
“To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Song #Nashville #Forever
“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.”
-- Alan Jackson

#People #Wife #Fancy
“I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Thinking #People #Touring
“Tonight I'm the designated drinker.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Alcohol #Drug #Tonight
“I've always stood up for country music.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Country #Stood Up
“Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love”
-- Alan Jackson

#And Love #Faith Hope And Love #Hope And Love
“Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?”
-- Alan Jackson

#World #September
“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.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Years #Cds #Walmart
“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.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Age #Towns #My Family
“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.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Softball #Jobs #Growing Up
“Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Fire #Music Is #Stills
“I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Mean #Thinking #Voice
“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.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Grew Up #Grew #Young
“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.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Song #Writing #People
“I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Thinking #Trying #Fans
“I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Thinking #Albums #Done
“You just write about things that happen.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Writing
“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.”
-- Alan Jackson

#People #Cynical #Everyday
“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.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Song #Support #Radio
“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.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Song #Thinking #Albums
“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.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Children #Work #Hero
“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.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Song #Singing #Half
“I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles...”
-- Alan Jackson

#Hypocrite #Poodles #Politics
“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.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Song #Past #Done
“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.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Grandma #Years #Two
“He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Song #Men #Perfect
“Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue”
-- Alan Jackson

#Soccer #Blue #People
“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.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Long #Funny Retirement #Tickets
“I'm usually just enjoying life.”
-- Alan Jackson

#Enjoy Life #Enjoy

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