Alan Jackson Quotes

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to me.

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.

Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.

I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music, and I'm not saying there isn't an audience, because there is; because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

I recommend everyone who DJ's to do it as a hobby and make sure you have a day job or are going to school. Only 100 DJ's in the world make a living doing this, by that I mean making a good, comfortable living.

We are lucky to have a big fan base and that we can support ourselves doing live shows.

We've always existed regardless of how popular our band is. We've been around for a while, and we can tour regardless of whether there's a single on the radio or not.

I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.

I'm lucky that I have people listening to my music, waiting to see me in North America.

I've been a signed artist, but it's only been a full year-and-a-half. I'm still kind of new to money and this kind of lifestyle, so me being in a messed up predicament wasn't too long ago.

I don't ever want to think my time is up as a performer. I have been afforded the opportunity to sell 150 million albums, to travel to places I never thought I would go. I'm going to keep on performing. I hope it never ends.

It's very, very exciting for me to hear my songs on the radio and to play shows and have people know the words.

I'm lucky that I enjoy playing live; it's my passion to do that. There's certain artists that never want to play live. They just want to be in the studio. Good luck, because there is no income.

I know I can't rap forever, but I know as long as I got a label or something I can get money forever.

I had success as a drummer and was doing very well - I could send my mom to Best Buy and she could go buy my album, you know?

Of course I think we're most thankful for 'Shake It,' because it's given us a lot of opportunities, helped us pay some bills and brought us pretty far in life. And it's fun to perform live.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

My goal is to get my music out to as many people as possible. That a song of mine is being played on the radio so far away from home really, really pushes me. It's everything I've dreamed of.

I remember, a couple of years ago I was playing my first headline show, and it was to 100 people in St Pancras Old Church in London; and me and my mum were like, 'We don't know 100 people, how are we going to sell these tickets?'