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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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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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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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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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Love is stolen in the shadows of the night. Though it's wrong all along, it keeps going on as long as they keep it out of sight.
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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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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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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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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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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 love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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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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Tonight I'm the designated drinker.
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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
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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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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 wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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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've had several working-man songs that I like.
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When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.
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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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