Quotes by 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 there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.

— Alan Jackson

Happiness

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

Life

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

— Alan Jackson

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

A country song is a song about life.

— Alan Jackson

Life

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.

— Alan Jackson

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

— Alan Jackson

Wisdom

Oklahoma's always been good to me.

— Alan Jackson

Wisdom

You just write about things that happen.

— Alan Jackson

Wisdom

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

— Alan Jackson

Wisdom

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

— Alan Jackson

Wisdom

I'm usually just enjoying life.

— Alan Jackson

Happiness

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

— Alan Jackson

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Alan Jackson

Hope

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

Wisdom

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

— Alan Jackson

Wisdom

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

— Alan Jackson

Wisdom

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

— Alan Jackson

Wisdom

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

— Alan Jackson

Wisdom