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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.

Alan Jackson

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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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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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I've had several working-man songs that I 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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If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.
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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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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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I'm hooked on my baby's love, there ain't nothing in the jug this strong.
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I've always stood up for country music.
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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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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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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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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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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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