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 NELSONWhen I’m driving the highway by myself is when I write best.
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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Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.
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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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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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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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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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You’ll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.
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There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.
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I believe that all roads lead to the same place – and that is wherever all roads lead to.
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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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You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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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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Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.
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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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I got along without you before I met you and I’ll get along without you a long time after you’re gone.
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Be careful what you dream: soon your dreams will be dreaming you.
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As long as there’s a few farmers out there, we’ll keep fighting for them.
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You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody.
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When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
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Marijuana is like sex: If I don’t do it every day I get a headache.
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When you put your life in a good place, good things follow.
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Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.
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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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Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.
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I 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.
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The life I love is making music with my friends.
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