Top 200 Quotes & Sayings by Willie Nelson - Page 2

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.

We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way.

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

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.

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

You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it. He pretty much put his stamp on everything.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

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

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.

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.

Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.

Great songs stand out wherever they're from.

I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.

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.

I'm a romantic slob!

It's an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It's just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you've got, and move on.

Fortunately, we are not in control.

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.

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

...when you put your life in a good place, good things follow.

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.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.

Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.

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

Do something bad a thousand times and it's no big deal. Everyone just goes, "Willie f - up again."

When evolution has been outlawed, only the outlaws will evolve.

I think hemp is one of the greatest plants that God put in the ground, and I don't think anybody has the right to eradicate it. Just because somebody wants to get high with a joint, that's no reason to throw him in jail and take his damn belongings. He's just trying to get well. The mother - 's sick. That's why people drink beer when they come home from work. They're stressed out. That's all grass does. It's a big stress reliever.

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

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

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.

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.

I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now

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.

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.

I got in at 2 with a 10, and woke up at 10 with a 2.

One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart.

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.

Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.

On the road again, goin' places that I've never been. Seein' things that I may never see again, and I can't wait to get on the road again.

I like marijuana because it keeps me from killing people. And I think there are a lot of people out there who are just like me. The reason it's not legal is because most people get up in the morning and get high, then forget to go out and vote for it.

I'm crazy for trying, crazy for crying, and I'm crazy for loving you.

The life I love is making music with my friends.

I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton.

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.

There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart

Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.

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.

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

You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind

In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell for all eternity... it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong... I didn’t cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and is best kept close to your heart.

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.

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

If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now.

If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.