Willie Nelson Quotes

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Willie Nelson

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 29, 1933

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.

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I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

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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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I'm a romantic slob!

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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!'

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

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You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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