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Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin' against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..

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Alan Jackson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 17
Artist
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Country Singer
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Newnan
Georgia
Alan Eugene Jackson
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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 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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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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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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Flesh is weak, but love is strong.
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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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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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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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I've always stood up for country music.
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I'm usually just enjoying life.
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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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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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I've had several working-man songs that I like.
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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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Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us but the greatest is love
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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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It's a scary word, 'cancer.'
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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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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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