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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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Alan Eugene Jackson
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What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.
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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 think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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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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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 don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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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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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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Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue
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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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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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You just write about things that happen.
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Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us but the greatest is love
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It's a scary word, 'cancer.'
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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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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 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've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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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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If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.
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