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.
You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.
Great songs stand out wherever they're from.
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.
What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
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.
Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.
I'm not prejudiced in any way that I can think of. That's just not the guy I am.
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!
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.
I don't like to think too far ahead.
I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!
And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.
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.
There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.
If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.
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.
I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.
I just enjoy both working and not working.
There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.
I like to play small clubs.
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.
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.
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.
I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.
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.
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 nowCollection: Pace
If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Winning
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.Collection: Cutting
There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heartCollection: Heart
Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.Collection: Gentle
Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.Collection: Wherever You Are
The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.Collection: Weed
Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.Collection: May
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.Collection: Blessed
If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie NelsonCollection: Crazy
If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now.Collection: Right Now
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.Collection: Drinking
You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.Collection: People
One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart.Collection: Heart
You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.Collection: Finding Happiness
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.Collection: Drinking
A lot of guns there's no need for civilians to own those those are for militaryCollection: Military
What goes around, comes around.Collection: Karma
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.Collection: Couple
Whoever supports the farmer is the guy for America.Collection: America
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.Collection: Horse