Willie Nelson Quotes (56 Quotes)


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

    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 youll always be happy, because its always in the now.

    Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

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

    For the whole 10 years, a week didn't go by that I wouldn't say to somebody 'Hey, what's happening' I'd find out nothing was happening, so I'd say it again the next week. Finally someone at Lost Highway got interested and made it happen just 10 years later.


    Par is whatever I say it is. I've got one hole that's a par 23 and yesterday I damn near birdied the sucker.

    We've seen how he cares about people, and he's had adversity in his life. Willie cares.

    When Ray did I Can't Stop Loving You , that was probably the time when country music was heard by more people than ever before. He kicked country music forward 50 years. Before him, a lot of people had probably never heard of songs by Don Gibson or Hank Williams.

    He's got to be there. He belongs there as much as anybody else. He's done as much as any of us to progress country music and let it be heard around the world and give it the respect it deserves.

    I loved her dearly and will miss her. And I'm glad that the music came out while she could still enjoy it.

    Kinky will get the politicians out of politics, but we need your help to get him on the ballot. Kinky has only a few weeks to collect over 45,000 signatures, and I'll be one of those signatures, and I hope you will, too.

    I didn't feel that I gave them a very good show. I figured one year later, my throat was back and I'd give it another shot.

    I think it's true, we have to watch what we're doing. I think if we start out to make what we're trying to do work locally, using local farmers, local people, local control, not going outside and importing a lot of things - everything we need, grow it in the area and be self-sustaining - I think we can probably keep that from happening to a certain degree.

    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.

    If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

    It feels good to bring Farm Aid back to the state where it all started-and to see the seeds that were planted in Champaign in 1985 take root all over the country, ... The resilience and perseverance of America's farm families are helping to build a new system of agriculture.

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

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

    Eating organic, family-grown food is important to a lot of us, so that's why it's important to take care of the family farmers. They're the backbone of the country.

    It's important because we are going around the world starting wars because over oil, and we don't have to do that. We can grow our own fuel here at home, help our farmers, help our environment, help the truckers ... help the local communities.

    We may have been poor, but my sister, Bobbie, and I were taught to hold our heads up high. Whether you're young or old, when you meet someone, you look 'em in the eye and speak up so you can be heard. When you look a person in the eye, you're not trying to hide who you are, plus you get a pretty good idea of who they are.

    I think this is a great thing that's happening. It's good for the country, it's good for Oklahoma, it's good for all of us.

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

    I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

    Johnny Cash transcends all musical boundaries and is one of the original outlaws .

    I think it's time we start looking seriously at alternative energies so we don't have to go around the world looking for oil,

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

    We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

    The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

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

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

    I'd like to see this happen time and time again, thousands of times across the country.


    I always thought Hank Williams was a great person to listen to, ... because his messages were simple, to the point, usually just three chords but they hit you right in the bone.

    The song's been in the closet for 20 years. The timing's right for it to come out.

    Hope remains when pride is gone, And it keeps you moving on. . . .

    Womack also shares Musical Event of the Year nominations with label mate George Strait for their Good News, Bad News ... I'll Never Be Free.

    It's usually a little costly to do a movie instead of a tour. I don't make that much money in the movies. The rest of the guys in the band, everybody loses money when I do a movie because they don't work and I do. Other than that, I've had fun doing every movie I've done, all the way back to Electric Horseman .

    There's a lot of good things going on. For the last year, people have found out more and more about it, including myself. Once they get it, they like it.

    It can't get much worse, 100 yards an hour, ... It's frustrating bumper-to-bumper.

    It is the future. Through bio-diesel, we can reduce dependency on foreign oil and adopt an energy source that's clean, renewable and helps family farmers find new uses for their products.

    The winds of change are always blowing And every time I try to stay The winds of change continue blowing And they just carry me away.

    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?

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

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

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


    I am opening my home with the hope of raising funds for Kinky and his noble cause to reclaim the Capitol for us all, ... Kinky is in a tough race to be the next Governor of Texas, running against several well-financed candidates. Texas law makes it tough for an independent to get on the ballot and he needs all the support we can give him for a campaign that's fueled on the merit of good ideas instead of special interest money.

    We did Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age, Bubbles in My Beer, I Was Just Walking Out the Door, You Don't Know Me , a lot of good songs.

    This is the start of tax season, with people receiving 1040s in mail,


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