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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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Alan Jackson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 17
Artist
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Country Singer
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Singer-Songwriter
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Newnan
Georgia
Alan Eugene Jackson
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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 don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.
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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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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 always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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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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You just write about things that happen.
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I've had several working-man songs that I like.
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It's a scary word, 'cancer.'
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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've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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I'm usually just enjoying life.
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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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Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue
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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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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 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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