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You just write about things that happen.

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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
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Alan Eugene Jackson
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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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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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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've had several working-man songs that I like.
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I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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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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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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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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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
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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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Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue
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I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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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 think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.
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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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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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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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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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I'm usually just enjoying life.
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