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.
WILLIE NELSONI’m drowning in whiskey river.
More Willie Nelson Quotes
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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 really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
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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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There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart.
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The fight to save family farms isn’t just about farmers. It’s about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us. It’s about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It’s about a better America.
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When I see someone I think is cool, he’s a pretty well-adjusted individual. He’s not too affected one way or the other by what’s happening, no matter what’s going through his mind.
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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.
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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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Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind.
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I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.
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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!
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You could try to live monogamously. Good luck.
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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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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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Just take what you need from the ladies and leave them.
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