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.
WILLIE NELSONI like marijuana because it keeps me from killing people. And I think there are a lot of people out there who are just like me. The reason it’s not legal is because most people get up in the morning and get high, then forget to go out and vote for it.
More Willie Nelson Quotes
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The life I love is making music with my friends.
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There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.
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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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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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There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart.
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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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If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you.
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When I’m driving the highway by myself is when I write best.
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Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.
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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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Just take what you need from the ladies and leave them.
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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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Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.
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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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I been a long time leaving but I’m going to be a long time gone.
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