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I've always stood up for country music.

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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Newnan
Georgia
Alan Eugene Jackson
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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 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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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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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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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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I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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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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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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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 think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy, but most of the ones I've ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I've enjoyed that.
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A country song is a song about life.
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I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.
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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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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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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
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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 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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I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.
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