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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

Alan Jackson

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Alan Jackson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 17
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Alan Eugene Jackson
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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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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. 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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Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue
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You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.
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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. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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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 think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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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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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'm hooked on my baby's love, there ain't nothing in the jug this strong.
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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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I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us but the greatest is love
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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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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 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 always stood up for country music.
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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 don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.
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