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.
WILLIE NELSONI think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.
More Willie Nelson Quotes
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If you’ve made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.
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There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart.
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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 didn’t come here and I ain’t leavin’.
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Fortunately, we are not in control.
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You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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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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Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they’re rapping. It’s easier to try to censor some kid who’s swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.
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You can’t make a record if you ain’t got nothin’ to say.
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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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I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now
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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 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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I’m drowning in whiskey river.
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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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