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 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.
More Willie Nelson Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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 think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.
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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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The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.
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As long as there’s a few farmers out there, we’ll keep fighting for them.
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I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs. When I was on drugs I couldn’t even find my bike.
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If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
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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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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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Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.
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You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody.
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