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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
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? -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man. I sang it nice and slow -- Willie Nelson
If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone. -- Willie Nelson
Just can't wait to get on the road again -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground. -- Willie Nelson
I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money. -- Willie Nelson
I like to play small clubs. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild. -- Willie Nelson
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues. -- Willie Nelson
I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
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
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
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. -- Willie Nelson
If you're not crazy there's something wrong with you.
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Well, it's a Bloody Mary morning, my baby left without warning. -- Willie Nelson
Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality. -- Willie Nelson
If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time. -- Willie Nelson
The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
A lot of country music is sad. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it. -- Willie Nelson
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
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. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control. -- Willie Nelson
I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. -- Willie Nelson
In the twilight glow I see her, blue eyes crying in the rain. As we kissed goodbye and parted, I knew we'd never meet again. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth. -- Willie Nelson
I'm drowning in whiskey river. -- Willie Nelson
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 -- Willie Nelson
There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
The fight to save family farms isn't just about farmers. It's
about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us.
It's about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It's about a better
America. -- Willie Nelson
Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind -- Willie Nelson
All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up? -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
You could try to live monogamously. Good luck. -- Willie Nelson
Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you've got to careful and don't overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it. -- Willie Nelson
I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style! -- Willie Nelson
Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone. -- Willie Nelson
Memories remind us that every moment of our lives, even the most tragic, have contributed to our strength. We've gotten through. We're still here. -- Willie Nelson
I'm a romantic slob! -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
What goes around, comes around. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
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
I don't like to think too far ahead. -- Willie Nelson
I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude. -- Willie Nelson
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. -- Willie Nelson
Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out. -- Willie Nelson
Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again -- Willie Nelson
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. -- Willie Nelson
Freedom is control in your own life. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
What has changed is that nothing has changed ... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else. -- Willie Nelson
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
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. -- Willie Nelson
I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'. -- Willie Nelson
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
We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way. -- Willie Nelson
Horses were a way to travel to get to where we are today, and it is our job to protect them. -- Willie Nelson
Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom. -- Willie Nelson
As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week. -- Willie Nelson
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!' -- Willie Nelson
You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
You can't hang a man for shooting a woman who was trying to steel his horse. -- Willie Nelson
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. -- Willie Nelson
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
Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
Just take what you need from the ladies and leave them. -- Willie Nelson
The whole house came up and I came up with it ... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me. -- Willie Nelson
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
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. -- Willie Nelson
You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin' to say. -- Willie Nelson
It was and is always nice to work with the kids. -- Willie Nelson
Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
I'm an old fashioned joint smoker ya know. -- Willie Nelson
America, to me, is freedom. -- Willie Nelson
When it's on us, seems like the storm will never pass. But it always does. -- Willie Nelson
When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best. -- Willie Nelson
I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone. -- Willie Nelson
I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
I'm a little prejudiced when it comes to horses. I have always loved them. -- Willie Nelson
There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies. -- Willie Nelson
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. -- Willie Nelson
Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach. -- Willie Nelson
Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless. -- Willie Nelson
I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. -- Willie Nelson
If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
When you put your life in a good place, good things follow. -- Willie Nelson
If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic. -- Willie Nelson
I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to. -- Willie Nelson
It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection. -- Willie Nelson
I smoke pot every day, and I love it! -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. -- Willie Nelson
You will never find love until you stop looking. -- Willie Nelson
I still probably smoke as much as I ever did! -- Willie Nelson
More and more people are finding out the benefits of it - hemp and marijuana. The more they delve into it and research it, the more they realize, Hey wait a minute, we should give this another look. -- Willie Nelson
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! -- Willie Nelson
If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now. -- Willie Nelson
(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
I think innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody. -- Willie Nelson
I believe in looseness. -- Willie Nelson
Every now and then I'll think of something to put back in the show. I just kind of play it off the top of my head. If I do it that way it keeps it kinda fresh. -- Willie Nelson
I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body. -- Willie Nelson
A lot of guns there's no need for civilians to own those those are for military -- Willie Nelson
How would you like to bite that in the ass, develop lock jaw and be dragged to death? -- Willie Nelson
There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart -- Willie Nelson
You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. -- Willie Nelson
The life I love is making music with my friends. -- Willie Nelson
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
I'm not prejudiced in any way that I can think of. That's just not the guy I am. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
Fortunately, we are not in control. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people. -- Willie Nelson
And when I die, put it on my stone. God said, Sucker get your bad ass home. I wasn't Superman. I wasn't Superman -- Willie Nelson
There are more old drunks than there are old doctors. -- Willie Nelson
I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it. -- Willie Nelson
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. -- Willie Nelson
I'm crazy for trying, crazy for crying, and I'm crazy for loving you. -- Willie Nelson
I got in at 2 with a 10, and woke up at 10 with a 2. -- Willie Nelson
If a song was ever good, it's still good. -- Willie Nelson
I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields. -- Willie Nelson
And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff. -- Willie Nelson
I don't smoke as many joints as I used to. -- Willie Nelson
When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song. -- Willie Nelson
You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it. -- Willie Nelson
I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth. -- Willie Nelson
Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. -- Willie Nelson
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. -- Willie Nelson
Be careful what you dream: soon your dreams will be dreaming you. -- Willie Nelson
Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true. -- Willie Nelson
I just enjoy both working and not working. -- Willie Nelson
Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone. -- Willie Nelson
