You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody.
WILLIE NELSONWhen 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.
More Willie Nelson Quotes
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I’m drowning in whiskey river.
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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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Marijuana is like sex: If I don’t do it every day I get a headache.
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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 never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that’s about all that’s required.
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I don’t believe in adhering to any rules I don’t support and I didn’t vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you’ll be happy.
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If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he’s good or bad, I think you’re starting out in the wrong direction. I think we’re all good and we’re all bad.
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I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.
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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 believe that all roads lead to the same place – and that is wherever all roads lead to.
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Heard you told him that you’d love him ’til the end of time. Now that’s the same thing that you told me.
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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.
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I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.
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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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I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.
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Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.
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When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.
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On the road again, goin’ places that I’ve never been. Seein’ things that I may never see again, and I can’t wait to get on the road again.
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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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My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha’s a fine thing.
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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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Be gentle with your words – you can’t take them back.
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Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play.
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I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday’s gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time.
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