Quotes By Willie Nelson

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

America, to me, is freedom.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

A lot of country music is sad.

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.

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?

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

I'm a romantic slob!

Freedom is control in your own life.

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

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.

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.

I like to play small clubs.

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

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 just enjoy both working and not working.