Top 50 Alan Jackson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s a scary word, ’cancer.”

— Alan Jackson

2. “Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?”

— Alan Jackson

3. “Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It’s only half past twelve but I don’t care, it’s 5 O’clock somewhere.”

— Alan Jackson

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4. “Tonight I’m the designated drinker.”

— Alan Jackson

5. “A country song is a song about life.”

— Alan Jackson

6. “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

7. “I’m usually just enjoying life.”

— Alan Jackson

8. “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

9. “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

10. “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?”

— Alan Jackson

11. “Love is stolen in the shadows of the night. Though it’s wrong all along, it keeps going on as long as they keep it out of sight.”

— Alan Jackson

12. “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.”

— Alan Jackson

13. “I’m hooked on my baby’s love, there ain’t nothing in the jug this strong.”

— Alan Jackson

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14. “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

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

— Alan Jackson

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

— Alan Jackson

17. “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?”

— Alan Jackson

18. “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

19. “When I was in high school, I don’t know that I really had big dreams.”

— Alan Jackson

20. “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

21. “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

22. “I’ve always stood up for country music.”

— Alan Jackson

23. “I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles...”

— Alan Jackson

24. “Flesh is weak, but love is strong.”

— Alan Jackson

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25. “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

26. “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

27. “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

28. “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

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

— Alan Jackson

30. “I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I’ve gotten older, I think. I noticed that.”

— Alan Jackson

31. “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

32. “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

33. “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

34. “Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue.”

— Alan Jackson

35. “I’ve always wanted to make a bluegrass album.”

— Alan Jackson

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

— Alan Jackson

37. “I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.”

— Alan Jackson

38. “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

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

— Alan Jackson

40. “You just write about things that happen.”

— Alan Jackson

41. “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

42. “Oklahoma’s always been good to me.”

— Alan Jackson

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

— Alan Jackson

44. “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

45. “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

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

— Alan Jackson

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

— Alan Jackson

48. “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

49. “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

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

— Alan Jackson