Alan Jackson Quotes

When I was younger, I did what I now call 'extreme singing.' I could do this thing where I would sing really high. I can't really do that anymore, at my age. My voice has shifted. It's changed.

I think voice is like a good wine. If you work it well, it will mature.

I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.

I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age. If the part requires somebody a little younger or older, I can probably get away with that.

I had been in a professional boys' choir, and as a boy soprano, you're aware that your voice has an expiration date.

My face doesn't look the same way it did at 39. My body doesn't look the same way it did at 39.

My voice has changed dramatically over the years.

The only thing some people do is get older.

I'm now in my mid-thirties, so I look in the mirror and my face is changing, and I have a different relationship all of a sudden with myself. Your face changes, things change - that's just kind of what happens. It's hard, though, in this industry, because I think so much importance is put on how you look, and I'm not brave enough to be like, "You know what? I'm just going to let it happen. Whatever. I'm so cool with every line on my face."

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.

Old age makes caricatures of us all.

The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

The ears are the last feature to age.

With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.

It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.