Quotes By Willie Nelson

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.

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

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

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

If a song was ever good, it's still good.

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

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 didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.

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

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

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.

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

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

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

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

I don't like to think too far ahead.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.