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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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Alan Jackson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 17
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Alan Eugene Jackson
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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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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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The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.
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Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?
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A country song is a song about life.
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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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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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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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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'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 always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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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'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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