Willie Nelson Quotes

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Willie Nelson

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 29, 1933

I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.

Willie Nelson

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.

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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!

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

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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.

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

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I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.

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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.

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