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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.
- Enjoying Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm usually just enjoying life.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I am driven and laid-back at the same time.
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oklahoma's always been good to me.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
You just write about things that happen.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's a scary word, 'cancer.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
A country song is a song about life.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always stood up for country music.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had several working-man songs that I like.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020