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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: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 17
Artist
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Country Singer
Music Artist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Newnan
Georgia
Alan Eugene Jackson
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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 think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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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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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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If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.
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A country song is a song about life.
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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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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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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 love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy, but most of the ones I've ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I've enjoyed that.
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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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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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I've had several working-man songs that I 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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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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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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I'm usually just enjoying life.
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When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.
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The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.
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