Alan Jackson Quotes

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

I've always stood up for country music.

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.

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

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

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

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.

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.

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.

Tonight I'm the designated drinker.

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

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

I mean, my girls are very sweet; I'm very proud of all of of them.

I'm hooked on my baby's love, there ain't nothing in the jug this strong.

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.

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke rising against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor, or did you just sit down and cry?

You just write about things that happen.

'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.

I mean, I am driven and laid-back at the same time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.

Oklahoma's always been good to me.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

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.

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.

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.

I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.