Alan Jackson Quotes - Page 2

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• Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?

  Alan Jackson

  World, September

  Song: Where Were You, Album: Drive, 2002

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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?

  Alan Jackson

  Children, People, Politics

  Song: Where Were You, Album: Drive, 2002

  10 Copy quote

• 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.

  Alan Jackson

  Thinking, Criticism, Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

• 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.

  Alan Jackson

  Age, Towns, My Family

  73 Copy quote

• 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.

  Alan Jackson

  Grandma, Years, Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Alan Jackson

  Softball, Jobs, Growing Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  12 Copy quote

• 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.

  Alan Jackson

  Years, Cds, Walmart

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alan Jackson

  Running, Country, Weather

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  Alan Jackson

  Song, Writing, Together

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  9 Copy quote

• Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue

  Alan Jackson

  Soccer, Blue, People

  4 Copy quote

• I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.

  Alan Jackson

  Mean, Thinking, Voice

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.

  Alan Jackson

  Thinking, Trying, Fans

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

• Oklahoma's always been good to me.

  Alan Jackson

  Oklahoma

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alan Jackson

  Stars, Crazy, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alan Jackson

  Song, Support, Radio

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Alan Jackson

  Song, Thinking, Albums

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alan Jackson

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alan Jackson

  Song, Men, Perfect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alan Jackson

  People, Cynical, Everyday

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

  Alan Jackson

  Dream, School, Bigs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alan Jackson

  Retirement, Long, Albums

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

  Alan Jackson

  Thinking, Albums, Done

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alan Jackson

  People, Wife, Fancy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alan Jackson

  Song, Past, Done

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alan Jackson

  Energy, Littles, Should

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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