Alan Jackson quote: "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."

...they're thinking about putting me on the cover of the USA Today, story of heartbreaking pain, pic...
ALAN JACKSON

I've played this thing as long as I can remember, I guess. I'll tell you what ? this building sounds...
ALAN JACKSON

We had about 30 songs. I picked some I thought my mom would really like and some I liked. We went in...
ALAN JACKSON

Any possibility of masking the development of B12 deficiency has to be a matter of concern.
ALAN JACKSON

We have made an excellent start to the year with a 20 pct increase in profits in the first half and ...
ALAN JACKSON

Walk Tall.
ALAN JACKSON

Here In The Real World
ALAN JACKSON

Country Reaches Out: An Opry Benefit for the American Red Cross,
ALAN JACKSON

My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a ...
ALAN JACKSON

Country Music: The Spirit of America
ALAN JACKSON

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook a...
ALAN JACKSON

I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'...
ALAN JACKSON

If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you ...
ALAN JACKSON

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that ...
ALAN JACKSON

I'm usually just enjoying life.
ALAN JACKSON

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're re...
ALAN JACKSON

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any ...
ALAN JACKSON

I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them...
ALAN JACKSON

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out t...
ALAN JACKSON

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

It's a scary word, 'cancer.'
ALAN JACKSON

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

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

He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to d...
ALAN JACKSON

For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists t...
ALAN JACKSON

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've...
ALAN JACKSON

You just write about things that happen.
ALAN JACKSON

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more ene...
ALAN JACKSON

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

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

What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weat...
ALAN JACKSON

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to ha...
ALAN JACKSON

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

Oklahoma's always been good to me.
ALAN JACKSON

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off...
ALAN JACKSON

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you ou...
ALAN JACKSON

A country song is a song about life.
ALAN JACKSON

Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN

Jay-Z is as politically correct as some of the politicians. He's safe. There's points when y...
CURTIS JACKSON

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I se...
MICHAEL JACKSON

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.
MICHAEL JACKSON

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straigh...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours wi...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parti...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and e...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
MICHAEL JACKSON

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and cha...
MICHAEL JACKSON

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used ...
MICHAEL JACKSON

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say....
MICHAEL JACKSON

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the ...
MICHAEL JACKSON

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
MICHAEL JACKSON

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everyt...
MICHAEL JACKSON

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time.
CURTIS JACKSON

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and d...
MICHAEL JACKSON

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.
WANDA JACKSON

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert...
WANDA JACKSON

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
WANDA JACKSON

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
WANDA JACKSON

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
WANDA JACKSON

I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
WANDA JACKSON

I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
WANDA JACKSON

But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
WANDA JACKSON

There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
WANDA JACKSON

I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
WANDA JACKSON

On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing ...
WANDA JACKSON

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
WANDA JACKSON

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, ...
WANDA JACKSON

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
WANDA JACKSON

Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
WANDA JACKSON

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
WANDA JACKSON

Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
WANDA JACKSON

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
WANDA JACKSON

You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
WANDA JACKSON

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
WANDA JACKSON

Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.
WANDA JACKSON

I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
WANDA JACKSON

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.
WANDA JACKSON

They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vin...
WANDA JACKSON

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to p...
WANDA JACKSON

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
WANDA JACKSON

I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood...
VICTORIA JACKSON

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscien...
VICTORIA JACKSON

Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don'...
VICTORIA JACKSON

I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to...
VICTORIA JACKSON

Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserv...
VICTORIA JACKSON

I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent ...
VICTORIA JACKSON

But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him a...
VICTORIA JACKSON

When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
VICTORIA JACKSON

I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.
VICTORIA JACKSON

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
VICTORIA JACKSON

I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
VICTORIA JACKSON

It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were ...
VICTORIA JACKSON

I've never been in the music industry, only acting.
VICTORIA JACKSON

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
VICTORIA JACKSON

It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.
VICTORIA JACKSON

I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.
VICTORIA JACKSON

They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
VICTORIA JACKSON

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unac...
VICTORIA JACKSON

Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
VICTORIA JACKSON

I think abortion is murder.
VICTORIA JACKSON

Sometimes I like to vent.
VICTORIA JACKSON

So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about...
VICTORIA JACKSON

I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I&#...
VICTORIA JACKSON

I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
VICTORIA JACKSON

Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake.
VICTORIA JACKSON

I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.
JACKSON RATHBONE

I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really lov...
JACKSON RATHBONE

I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.
JACKSON RATHBONE

I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
JACKSON RATHBONE

I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
JACKSON RATHBONE

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the ...
JACKSON RATHBONE

I think a girl looks good when she wakes up with nothing on her face.
JACKSON RATHBONE

I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.
JACKSON RATHBONE

In L.A. summer's blistering heat, I've seen many girls wearing short skirts with Ugg boots. ...
JACKSON RATHBONE

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
JACKSON POLLOCK

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
JACKSON POLLOCK

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
JACKSON POLLOCK

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're pa...
JACKSON POLLOCK

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the ener...
JACKSON POLLOCK

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure ...
JACKSON POLLOCK

My painting does not come from the easel.
JACKSON POLLOCK

Every good painter paints what he is.
JACKSON POLLOCK

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a fin...
JACKSON POLLOCK

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk ...
JACKSON POLLOCK

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters wor...
JACKSON POLLOCK

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
JACKSON POLLOCK

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
JACKSON POLLOCK

Men are every bit as gendered as women.
JACKSON KATZ

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention ge...
JACKSON KATZ

During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Re...
JACKSON KATZ

The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football p...
JACKSON KATZ

A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they...
JACKSON KATZ

In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happen...
JACKSON KATZ

Language usage always has a political context.
JACKSON KATZ

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know ...
JACKSON KATZ

If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the ...
JACKSON KATZ

Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is h...
JACKSON KATZ

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
JACKSON KATZ

Whether one admired or was repulsed by the positions he took on matters foreign and domestic, it is ...
JACKSON KATZ

In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
JACKSON KATZ

In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.
JACKSON KATZ

Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something t...
JACKSON KATZ

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricatur...
JACKSON KATZ

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, an...
JACKSON KATZ

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
JACKSON KATZ

For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She r...
JACKSON KATZ

Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood tha...
JACKSON KATZ

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse ...
JACKSON KATZ

I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
JACKSON BRUNDAGE

Here in California, it's living the life, going to school, playing sports and hanging out with m...
JACKSON BRUNDAGE

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
JACKSON BROWNE

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstr...
JACKSON BROWNE

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, peopl...
JACKSON BROWNE

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's h...
JACKSON BROWNE

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mand...
JACKSON BROWNE

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicia...
JACKSON BROWNE

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a hous...
JACKSON BROWNE

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of ye...
JACKSON BROWNE

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most l...
JACKSON BROWNE

We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don...
JACKSON BROWNE

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that&...
JACKSON BROWNE

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instr...
JACKSON BROWNE

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's ...
JACKSON BROWNE

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roo...
JACKSON BROWNE

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make ...
JACKSON BROWNE

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a ba...
JACKSON BROWNE

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to y...
JACKSON BROWNE

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I bel...
JACKSON BROWNE

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize ...
JACKSON BROWNE

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't ...
JACKSON BROWNE

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'l...
JACKSON BROWNE

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will l...
JACKSON BROWNE

Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it...
JACKSON BROWNE

One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.
JACKIE JACKSON

I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.
JACKIE JACKSON

I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all...
JACKIE JACKSON

I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
JACKIE JACKSON

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him ...
JACKIE JACKSON

My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
JACKIE JACKSON

What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That ...
IAN JACKSON

I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do i...
IAN JACKSON

I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going t...
IAN JACKSON

If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certa...
IAN JACKSON

I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general ...
IAN JACKSON

We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you...
IAN JACKSON

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about...
PHIL JACKSON

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportu...
JANET JACKSON

I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
STONEWALL JACKSON

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be...
JACKSON POLLOCK

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
MICHAEL JACKSON

Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.
CURTIS JACKSON

Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we ...
CURTIS JACKSON

Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal fa...
PARIS JACKSON

I want to have a normal high-school experience.
PARIS JACKSON

I do have a regular childhood.
PARIS JACKSON

A lot of people don't like me.
PARIS 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.

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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.

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