Willie Nelson Quotes

• (Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.

  Willie Nelson

  Writing   Eight   Years  

  "Willie Nelson: 'If We Made Marijuana Legal, We'd Save a Whole Lotta Money and Lives'" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

  Willie Nelson

  Writing  

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• If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

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  Crazy   Nelson   Ifs  

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• There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.

  Willie Nelson

  Texas   Austin   Feels  

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• I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again.

  Willie Nelson

  Running   Couple   Drinking  

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• At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.

  Willie Nelson

  Country   Song   Powerful  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that's not a bad idea.

  Willie Nelson

  Cutting   Ideas   Use  

  Source: www.gq.com

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• When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.

  Willie Nelson

  Song   Knows  

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• Heard you told him that you'd love him 'til the end of time. Now that's the same thing that you told me.

  Willie Nelson

  Infidelity   Adultery   Ends  

  Willie Nelson, Bud Shrake (2000). “Willie: An Autobiography”, p.62, Cooper Square Press

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• I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

  Willie Nelson

  Pigs   Farmers   Had A Great Time  

  "Willie Nelson: What I've Learned" by Robert Huber, www.esquire.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call "policing the area." That's where you looked around and if there's anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area. And I think that's a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won't have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed.

  Willie Nelson

  Thinking   Air   Needs  

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• It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

  Willie Nelson

  Hurt   Feels  

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• I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

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  Joints   Used   Smoke  

  Source: www.gq.com

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• If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone.

  Willie Nelson

  Dream   Waiting   Gone  

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• All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

  Willie Nelson

  Giving Up   Golf   Play  

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• When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.

  Willie Nelson

  Drinking   Fighting   Joints  

  "Willie Nelson: 'If we made marijuana legal, we'd save a whole lotta money and lives'". Interview with Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again.

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  Serious   Financial   Problem  

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• As far as advice goes, an ex-father in law of mine once gave me the best advice I ever heard. He said, "Take my advice and do what you want to." So with that, go on.

  Willie Nelson

  Father   Law   Advice  

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I don’t believe in adhering to any rules I don’t support and I didn’t vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you’ll be happy.

  Willie Nelson

  Believe   Thinking   People  

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• And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.

  Willie Nelson

  Guitar   Stuff   West  

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• When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.

  Willie Nelson

  Song   Fall   Sky  

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• Be careful what you dream: soon your dreams will be dreaming you.

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  Dream   Be Careful   Careful  

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• America, to me, is freedom.

  Willie Nelson

  America  

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• We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul.

  Willie Nelson

  Cutting   Differences   Laughing  

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Jun 17, 2016

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• When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.

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  Thinking   Mind   Matter  

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• My sister played the piano. She’s two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.

  Willie Nelson

  Couple   Book   Grandmother  

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

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• There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it.

  Willie Nelson

  People   Sound   Certain  

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.

  Willie Nelson

  Cheating   Song   Writing  

  "Willie Nelson: What I've Learned" by Robert Hubert, www.esquire.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

  Willie Nelson

  Country   Thinking   Rays  

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• Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you.

  Willie Nelson

  Country   Rocks   Rock And Roll  

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