Willie Nelson Quotes

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

Life and water are inseparable. Three quarters of the earth's surface is covered by water, just as three quarters of your body is made up of water. Even in the driest desert where rain may come just once every few years, the cycles of life are based on waiting for the arrival of water. Our bodies are not so patient.
Every cell in your body needs water to survive, and that means that drinking plenty of clean, fresh water can make you stronger healthier and smarter. Water carries oxygen and fuel to your cells, lubricates your joints, regulates your body temperature, and plays a key roll in just about every function of your body.
My number one roadie, POODIE, says, You can't make a turd without grease. ~ Willie Nelson

I'm a romantic slob! ~ Willie Nelson

What goes around, comes around. ~ Willie Nelson

It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you. ~ Suzy Bogguss

I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style! ~ 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

Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem. ~ 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

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

I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to. ~ 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

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. ~ Willie Nelson

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

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

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

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors. ~ Willie Nelson

Just take what you need from the ladies and leave them. ~ 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

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 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

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

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 innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody. ~ Willie Nelson

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. ~ Willie Nelson

How would you like to bite that in the ass, develop lock jaw and be dragged to death? ~ 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

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

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again ~ 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

Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality. ~ 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

It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop. ~ Tig Notaro

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up? ~ Willie Nelson

I always loved Willie Nelson, but I loved the songs that Willie made famous. ~ Shane McAnally

I don't like to think too far ahead. ~ 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 text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude. ~ Willie Nelson

Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild. ~ Willie Nelson

Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the Ferris wheel. It's not the best seat in the house, but you see enough lights, action, people, and confusion to make you wonder if anybody knows what the hell's going on. If you're sitting out front, of course, it all rolls along as smoothly as a German train schedule, but as Willie, like any great magician, would be the first to point out, the real show is never in the center ring. As Willie always says, Fortunately, we're not in control. ~ Kinky Friedman

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

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

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. ~ Willie Nelson

America, to me, is freedom. ~ Willie Nelson

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. ~ 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

When it's on us, seems like the storm will never pass. But it always does. ~ Willie Nelson

There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it. ~ 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'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

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

Willie Nelson is not just a star or a headliner, he's a legend. ~ Lee Brice

I just enjoy both working and not working. ~ Willie Nelson

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

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

Freedom is control in your own life. ~ Willie Nelson

You could try to live monogamously. Good luck. ~ Willie Nelson

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time. ~ 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

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. ~ Willie Nelson

As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them. ~ Willie Nelson

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

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

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. ~ 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

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

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to. ~ Willie Nelson

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

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

Truth be told, these fuckers don't know their elbows from their assholes. ~ 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

Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain. ~ Willie Nelson

It was and is always nice to work with the kids. ~ Willie Nelson

The life I love is making music with my friends. ~ Willie Nelson

What has changed is that nothing has changed ... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else. ~ 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 am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money. ~ Willie Nelson

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

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. ~ 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

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best. ~ Willie Nelson

Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level. ~ Benmont Tench

I believe in looseness. ~ Willie Nelson

I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth. ~ Willie Nelson

I'm an old fashioned joint smoker ya know. ~ 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

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

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

Michael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album ... They're covering The Doobie Brothers. ~ Reba McEntire

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

Family farmers are small farmers who love the land. They're still not getting enough money for their product and are rapidly losing their battle to stay in business. By helping the American family farmer, we will in turn help ourselves out of the economic hole that we find ourselves in today. It doesn't really matter how we got here; the point is, we have to dig our way out. ~ 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

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

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

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. ~ Willie Nelson

If you're not crazy there's something wrong with you.
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Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. ~ Willie Nelson