Willie Nelson Quotes

I like to play small clubs.

Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.

Heard you told him that you'd love him 'til the end of time. Now that's the same thing that you told me.

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.

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.

If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.

I like marijuana because it keeps me from killing people. And I think there are a lot of people out there who are just like me. The reason it's not legal is because most people get up in the morning and get high, then forget to go out and vote for it.

I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.

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

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.

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

My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band had another blacksmith shop in Abbott, but he liked me. All he had was horns and drums, and I was set up over there with my little guitar with no amps or nothing. I would play as loud as I wanted to, and nobody could hear me.

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

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

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

Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

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

You could try to live monogamously. Good luck.

I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again.

Marijuana is like sex. If I don't do it every day, I get a headache. I think marijuana should be recognized for what it is, as a medicine, an herb that grows in the ground. If you need it, use it.

Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.

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

There's a lot of money in selling marijuana. If you can do it legally, that's good. Why should all the criminals make the money? This is what people are thinking. If it's happening, if it's going to be legal, let's tax it and regulate it, like we do with everything else and make some money off this. I think that's one reason why people are talking this a little more seriously.

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

Let the jerks of the world serve as the perfect example of what you don't want to be. You'll be a heck of a lot happier, and in the long run, there's a chance that other person at work will end up asking what your secret is. Why are you the happy one? In other words, don't let your thoughts think you. Besides, if you're really gonna get pissed, don't waste it on your family, friends, or coworkers, save it for something that really matters.

I'm drowning in whiskey river.

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.

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

I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

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

In the twilight glow I see her, blue eyes crying in the rain. As we kissed goodbye and parted, I knew we'd never meet again.

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

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.

Freedom is control in your own life.

When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.

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.

Vaporizers are good for your lungs. Cigarette smoke will kill you. I never heard of anybody dying from marijuana smoke. Vaporizers I think are smarter.

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

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.

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

...when you put your life in a good place, good things follow.

You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.

Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out.