Quotes By Willie Nelson

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

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

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

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

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

America, to me, is freedom.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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'm a romantic slob!

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

Freedom is control in your own life.

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.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

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 like to play small clubs.

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

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.

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

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

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