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.
WILLIE NELSONAs 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.
More Willie Nelson Quotes
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If a song was ever good, it’s still good.
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I’m drowning in whiskey river.
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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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Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.
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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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I’m from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there’s no one in control.
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Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.
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There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart.
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It’s an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It’s just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you’ve got, and move on.
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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.
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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 live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday’s gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time.
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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 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.
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Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.
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