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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
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Country Singer
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Alan Eugene Jackson
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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 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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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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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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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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You think about people like Hank Williams, who stood on that spot of wood, and Mr. Acuff, and, of course, George Jones. And just about anybody you can think of who has made country music has been on that stage. That's what makes you so nervous - to think about the historical part of the Opry and how it's played such a part in country music.
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I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.
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I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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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 don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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You just write about things that happen.
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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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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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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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A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.
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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 love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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