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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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Alan Eugene Jackson
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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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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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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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Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us but the greatest is love
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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 think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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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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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 always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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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 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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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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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'm hooked on my baby's love, there ain't nothing in the jug this strong.
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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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Flesh is weak, but love is strong.
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Oklahoma's always been good to me.
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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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