Top 200 Quotes & Sayings by Willie Nelson
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Willie Nelson.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
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.
I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.
Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.
I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.
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.
If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
If a song was ever good, it's still good.
Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.
Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.
I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.
I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.
Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'
I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.
When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.
If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!
I just enjoy both working and not working.
I don't like to think too far ahead.
I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.
Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.
All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it.
I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.
You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.
It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.
I grew up across the street from, you know, the Villarias, which was a great Mexican family there. In fact, there was three houses right across the street from me. So, day and night, I listened to Mexican music, and I'm sure, you know, my guitar playing, singing, writing, whatever, has a lot of Mexican flavor there, but it comes natural.
Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.
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.
I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.
America, to me, is freedom.
I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today.
I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.
You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.
I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.
I just enjoy both working and not working. And fortunately, I work enough where I get that out of my system, and then we take a few days off, take a rest.
We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.
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.
I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?
When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too.
The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.
Freedom is control in your own life.
I like to play small clubs.
There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.
I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.
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. That's why I also believe in reincarnation, that we were put here with ideas to pass around.
I'm not prejudiced in any way that I can think of. That's just not the guy I am.
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
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?
But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me!
Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.
Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.
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