Oh, I think it’s definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it’s maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.
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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Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.
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I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
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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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Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.
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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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What has changed is that nothing has changed. That’s what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
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A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
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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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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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Just take what you need from the ladies and leave them.
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It’s an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It’s just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you’ve got, and move on.
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If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
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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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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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When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.
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