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.
WILLIE NELSONWhen I’m driving the highway by myself is when I write best.
More Willie Nelson Quotes
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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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Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.
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You could try to live monogamously. Good luck.
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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
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Oh, I think it’s definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it’s maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.
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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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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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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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If you want to make marijuana legal, you’ve got to stay straight long enough to f – vote.
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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 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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If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they’re gone.
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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 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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Marijuana is like sex: If I don’t do it every day I get a headache.
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