Top 100 Quotes About Willie Nelson
#1. 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.
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#2. I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again.
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#3. I'm not Waylon Jennings, but I do a fair imitation of him, and a few other country greats, like Willie Nelson. It would be great to sink my teeth into a project where I could play a country singer. I'm like an old cowboy.
Todd Lowe
#4. Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.
Lyle Lovett
#5. Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.
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#6. God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don't forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I'd love to do it for him, but I can't be everywhere.
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#7. Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.
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#8. Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.
Paul Rudd
#10. You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin' to say.
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#11. The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.
Dan Rather
#13. What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.
Gabriel Byrne
#14. I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.
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#16. I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.
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#17. I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
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#18. You could try to live monogamously. Good luck.
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#19. Small family farmers are the only things that can save us because they take care of the land. Future farmers of America are going to be our heroes. Same with biodiesel, either way we need small family saustainable and organic farmers.
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#20. You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.
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#21. I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.
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#22. You, sir, are as twisted as a twelve-string banjo. - Willie Nelson to Sheriff Preston Bank
Ray Palla
#23. Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.
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#24. Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.
Merle Haggard
#25. It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.
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#26. Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.
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#27. I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
B.B. King
#28. When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas.
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#29. I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.
Robbie Robertson
#30. I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has.
Sarah McLachlan
#31. I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!
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#32. I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again
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#33. I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.
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#35. You can't hang a man for shooting a woman who was trying to steel his horse.
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#36. A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida.
Then it got weird.
Tim Dorsey
#37. You will never find love until you stop looking.
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#38. 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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#39. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.
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#41. Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn't need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the tax men.
Shawn Amos
#42. I've known straight and gay people all my life. I can't tell the difference ...
But I'd never marry a guy I didn't like.
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#43. 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.
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#44. Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That's what I wanted to prove.
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#45. I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
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#46. Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.
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#47. You might be a redneck if you have a picture of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, or Elvis over your fireplace.
Jeff Foxworthy
#49. A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
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#50. I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday's gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time.
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#51. Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.
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#52. Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
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#53. There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.
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#54. If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.
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#55. I love most 70's song writers, not so much outlaw, but really those 70's guys. I'm a big fan of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, those guys.
Bryan Hayes
#56. 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.
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#57. I'm a little prejudiced when it comes to horses. I have always loved them.
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#58. If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.
Kinky Friedman
#59. I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified.
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#61. One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart.
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#62. 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.
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#64. I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
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#65. What has changed is that nothing has changed ... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
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#66. I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.
Gary Allan
#67. I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.
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#68. Vaporizers are good for your lungs. Cigarette smoke will kill you. I never heard of anybody dying from marijuana smoke. Vaporizers I think are smarter.
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#69. Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.
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#70. I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.
Del Shannon
#71. When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.
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#72. When it's on us, seems like the storm will never pass. But it always does.
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#73. Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
Benmont Tench
#74. My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.
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#76. 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.
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#77. When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.
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#78. I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.
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#79. Marijuana is like sex. If I don't do it every day, I get a headache. I think marijuana should be recognized for what it is, as a medicine, an herb that grows in the ground. If you need it, use it.
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#80. If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.
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#81. We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.
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#82. When you put your life in a good place, good things follow.
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#83. Horses were a way to travel to get to where we are today, and it is our job to protect them.
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#84. I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work.
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#85. You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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#86. If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
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#87. I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.
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#88. I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs ... When I was on drugs I couldn't even find my bike.
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#89. My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing.
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#90. As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.
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#91. If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
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#92. I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.
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#93. If you're not crazy there's something wrong with you.
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#94. I'd just gotten into Los Angeles from Texas, where I live, and the phone rang and it was the guy calling about the Willie Nelson video. I was totally excited about it.
Corin Nemec
#95. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless.
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#96. Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.
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#97. All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?
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#98. Willie Nelson once said that sometimes, you have to either write a song or you kick your foot through a window. The third option , I suppose , is that you write a book.
Matt Haig
#99. 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.
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#100. Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The regulations needed to change their status to "food animals" would cripple every aspect of the horse industry as we know it. Plus, it would be wrong.
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