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For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists that sing real traditional stuff, so I don't know why they picked me. That's what I've always done.

- Alan Jackson

Reason, Some, Been, Picked

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

Year, Two, Played, Banjo

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

Think, Big, Always, Surprisingly

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

Think, Always, Over, Just Looking

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

Doing, Country, Through, Traffic

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.

- Alan Jackson

Sad, Radio, Lot, Sad Songs

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

Fancy, Been, Lot, Cracker

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, Get Together, Will, Crafty

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

Some, Buy, Walmart, Fan Base

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

Good, Bad, About, Everyday

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

Always, Been, Everybody, 50-50

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.

- Alan Jackson

Singing, Some, Half, Lyrics

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

Small, Play, North, Regular

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

- Alan Jackson

Always, Album, Wanted, Bluegrass

I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy.

- Alan Jackson

Been, I Think, Part, Party

I'm usually just enjoying life.

- Alan Jackson

Life, Just, Enjoying, Enjoying Life

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

- Alan Jackson

Think, I Think, Touring, Retire

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

- Alan Jackson

Rest, Last, Figure, Hopefully

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.

- Alan Jackson

Think, Need, I Think, Realize

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.

- Alan Jackson

My Life, Sisters, Had, All My Life

Oklahoma's always been good to me.

- Alan Jackson

Me, Always, Been, Oklahoma

'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.

- Alan Jackson

College, My Life, Anybody, Oh Yeah

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

- Alan Jackson

Music, Making, Still, Keeps

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

Some, Still, Albums, Retiring

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

Young, Town, Any, Young Age

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

- Alan Jackson

Voice, Think, I Think, Deeper

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

Some, In The Past, Hundred, Narrow

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.

- Alan Jackson

Asking, Always, Everybody, Gospel

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, Thought, Some, Blues

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

Always, Songs, Get, Tour

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