Willie Nelson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now”
-- Willie NelsonSource : FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Dec 13, 2013
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“I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.”
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“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.”
-- Willie NelsonSource : FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Oct 29, 2013
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“When I was growing up, Nashville was the place to go if you had songs to sell and thought you had talent and wanted to tour and be on Grand Ole Opry [radio show]. It was the big deal back in those days to play the Grand Ole Opry. And you could travel around the world saying, "Hi, I'm Willie from the Grand Ole Opry".”
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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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“There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it.”
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“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
-- Willie NelsonSource : "The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart". Book by Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin, 2006.
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“I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.”
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“Gatewood Galbraith was a good friend, and a tireless advocate for the repeal of the ridiculous ban on hemp & marijuana. His book ‘The Last Free Man Standing’ says it all.”
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“I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that's not a bad idea.”
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“The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.”
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“At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.”
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“I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.”
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“It was and is always nice to work with the kids.”
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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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“My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band had another blacksmith shop in Abbott, but he liked me. All he had was horns and drums, and I was set up over there with my little guitar with no amps or nothing. I would play as loud as I wanted to, and nobody could hear me.”
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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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“When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say, "Oh, those folks got kids. They need some books." I'd knock on their door and sell them a set of encyclopedias, and those books were from $300 to $600. I'd look around the house, and if there wasn't that much furniture in the house, I felt a little bad about selling a $600 set of books to people who couldn't afford a couch. So I didn't last at that job very long.”
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“There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.”
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“My sister played the piano. She's two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.”
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“As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.”
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“My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.”
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“Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.”
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“Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless.”
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“Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.”
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“Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.”
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“I think innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody.”
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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.”
-- Willie NelsonSource : Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.29, Penguin
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“Every now and then I'll think of something to put back in the show. I just kind of play it off the top of my head. If I do it that way it keeps it kinda fresh.”
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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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