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.
WILLIE NELSONWhen 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.
More Willie Nelson Quotes
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Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play.
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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 been a long time leaving but I’m going to be a long time gone.
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I didn’t come here and I ain’t leavin’.
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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’m drinking doubles now that you’re running around single again.
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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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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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If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
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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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What has changed is that nothing has changed. That’s what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
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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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There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart.
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Fortunately, we are not in control.
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One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart.
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Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.
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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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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 could try to live monogamously. Good luck.
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When evolution has been outlawed, only the outlaws will evolve.
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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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Let’s get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let’s take a stand for personal freedom.
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You’ll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.
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If a song was ever good, it’s still good.
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When I’m driving the highway by myself is when I write best.
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You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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