Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.
WILLIE NELSONOne thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart.
More Willie Nelson Quotes
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I been a long time leaving but I’m going to be a long time gone.
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I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.
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There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart.
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I’m drinking doubles now that you’re running around single again.
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When you’re singing, you’re using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can’t do that if you’re a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I’d tell them to sing more. It’s good therapy, too.
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Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.
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Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.
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We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
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If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
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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.
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If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they’re gone.
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Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.
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As long as there’s a few farmers out there, we’ll keep fighting for them.
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Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind.
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There’s a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.
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Let’s get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let’s take a stand for personal freedom.
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Oh, I think it’s definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it’s maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.
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You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody.
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What has changed is that nothing has changed. That’s what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
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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.
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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.
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When I’m driving the highway by myself is when I write best.
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I didn’t come here and I ain’t leavin’.
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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.
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Marijuana is like sex: If I don’t do it every day I get a headache.
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I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.
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