Top 100 Quotes About Willie Nelson
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.
Dan Rather
#5. 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
#6. You, sir, are as twisted as a twelve-string banjo. - Willie Nelson to Sheriff Preston Bank
Ray Palla
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.
Robbie Robertson
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn't need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the tax men.
Shawn Amos
#13. You might be a redneck if you have a picture of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, or Elvis over your fireplace.
Jeff Foxworthy
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
Benmont Tench
#19. If you're not crazy there's something wrong with you.
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#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
Laura Bell Bundy
#23. Michael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album ... They're covering The Doobie Brothers.
Reba McEntire
#24. It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.
Suzy Bogguss
#25. I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.
Lesley Ann Warren
#26. Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a concert to support small local farms in the U.S.
Rebecca Pidgeon
#27. Ever since Willie Nelson brought rednecks into an alliance with hippies back in the psychedelic '70s, Austin has milked its quirky libertarian spirit for a worldwide bonanza of free publicity.
Douglas Brinkley
#28. I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
G-Eazy
#29. My dad taught me to play the guitar. We grew up with country music. We had every Willie Nelson record (laughs). I was saved at a young age and had a great desire to follow God. I was really focused on that through my whole life, even as a kid and through high school.
Chris Tomlin
#30. I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too.
Christian Kane
#31. Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.
Dan Rather
#32. Sometimes I fantasize about the US head of state as a super-lazy, super-moral libertarian despot and think, "That would certainly make everything easier," even though I can't think of one person who'd qualify, except maybe Willie Nelson.
Chuck Klosterman
#33. I always loved Willie Nelson, but I loved the songs that Willie made famous.
Shane McAnally
#34. Willie Nelson is not just a star or a headliner, he's a legend.
Lee Brice
#35. I think I, like most people, enjoy a wide variety of music. Yeah, I like some country stuff - old country stuff. I might not enjoy Billy Ray Cyrus or anything. But, you know, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, early Johnny Cash - absolutely.
Charlie Day
#36. If I could ask for any life, I'd like to be the lead singer and guitarist for Willie Nelson & Family. That is to say, Willie.
Todd Lowe
#37. Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino.
Henry Garza
#38. But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?
Alan Vega
#39. Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.
Brad Paisley
#40. In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.
Douglas Brinkley
#41. If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.
Charley Pride
#42. 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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#43. I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again.
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#44. Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.
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#45. 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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#46. Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.
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#48. You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin' to say.
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#50. 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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#52. I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.
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#53. I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
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#54. You could try to live monogamously. Good luck.
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#55. 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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#56. You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.
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#57. 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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#58. 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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#59. It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.
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#60. Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.
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#61. 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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#62. I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!
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#63. 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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#64. 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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#66. You can't hang a man for shooting a woman who was trying to steel his horse.
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#67. You will never find love until you stop looking.
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#68. 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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#69. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.
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#71. 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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#72. 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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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. 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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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
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#81. There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.
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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. I'm a little prejudiced when it comes to horses. I have always loved them.
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#85. 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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#87. One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart.
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#88. 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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#90. I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
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#91. What has changed is that nothing has changed ... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.
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#95. When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.
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#96. When it's on us, seems like the storm will never pass. But it always does.
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#97. 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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#99. 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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#100. When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.
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