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I've always stood up for country music.

Alan Jackson

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Alan Jackson
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 17
Artist
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Country Singer
Music Artist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Newnan
Georgia
Alan Eugene Jackson
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I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.
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I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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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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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 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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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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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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The fan base that I've had all these years has come along. Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.
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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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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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Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us but the greatest is love
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Oklahoma's always been good to me.
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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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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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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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The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.
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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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