Quotes by Alan Jackson

About Alan Jackson:

Alan Eugene Jackson is an American singer, songwriter and musician, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 15 studio albums, three Greatest Hits albums, two Christmas albums, two Gospel albums and several compilations.
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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.

Alan Jackson

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

Alan Jackson

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

Alan Jackson

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 ...

Alan Jackson

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

Alan Jackson

He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

Alan Jackson

Oklahoma's always been good to me.

Alan Jackson

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. ...

Alan Jackson

I'm usually just enjoying life.

Alan Jackson

A country song is a song about life.

Alan Jackson

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

'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 ...

Alan Jackson

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

Alan Jackson

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

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

Alan Jackson

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

Alan Jackson

I've always stood up for country music.

Alan Jackson

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

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

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.

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Author Bio

  • NameAlan Jackson
  • DescriptionAmerican country singer
  • BornOctober 17, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Singer-songwriter; Songwriter; Composer