When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
WILLIE NELSONA 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.
More Willie Nelson Quotes
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I’ve known straight and gay people all my life. I can’t tell the difference. But I’d never marry a guy I didn’t like.
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Just take what you need from the ladies and leave them.
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Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.
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Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.
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Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.
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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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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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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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God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.
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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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I’m drowning in whiskey river.
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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
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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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I’m from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there’s no one in control.
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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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