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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When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

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You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

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Marijuana is like sex. If I don't do it every day, I get a headache. I think marijuana should be recognized for what it is, as a medicine, an herb that grows in the ground. If you need it, use it.

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When you put your life in a good place, good things follow.

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Jokes help pass the time on the road and they help get through life. You got to laugh. I always loved a good joke.

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I'm a country songwriter and we write cry-in-your-beer songs. That's what we do. Something that you can slow dance to.

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The IRS didn't mean to do me a favor, but in a way they did. They helped me clean house. I didn't need all that stuff anyway.

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Too much of anything is no good. Too much alcohol, too much sugar. I think pot is a lot less harmful than alcohol for most people. What happens to people on pot? They get mellow! People who are drinking can get dangerous, but not people on pot.

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There's one more thing about Viagra. They say it can make a lawyer taller.

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Bob Wills taught me how to be a bandleader and how to be a star. [...] There was no time wasted between songs. I learned from him to keep the people moving and dancing. [...] The more you keep the music going, the smoother the evening will be. Another thing he taught me was people came and paid their money to hear what they wanted to hear. Even if Bob had a mediocre band that night, the people knew his records and his radio shows and they heard what they thought Bob Wills sounded like. Whether he had a good night or a bad night, every night was a good night.

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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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We won the war, blew Afghanistan sky-high. Big deal. Blew up a lot of dirt. I can't see that we have won any wars.

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My lifestyle isn't conducive to marriage. It took four times because I guess I'm a slow learner. Maybe they didn't like my sense of humor.

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I'm just an ole redneck from Texas who ain't a Democrat or Republican, but I can look at a guy and tell whether I like him or not.

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I have written more than 1000 songs, most of them never recorded. The timing wasn't right or whatever. The songs that became the hits don't tell the whole story. Most songs disappear without a trace. You never know how people will take to them, what will strike a chord. If you did, you'd always do it. You'd record only hits. No one can do that.

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Let the jerks of the world serve as the perfect example of what you don't want to be. You'll be a heck of a lot happier, and in the long run, there's a chance that other person at work will end up asking what your secret is. Why are you the happy one? In other words, don't let your thoughts think you. Besides, if you're really gonna get pissed, don't waste it on your family, friends, or coworkers, save it for something that really matters.

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I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.

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I've toned down, but toning down ain't the same thing as quitting.

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I was six months old and my sister Bobbie was three years old when my parents divorced and gave us to my grandparents. I have no anger about my parents. They did us a favor. My grandparents were very reliable Christian people who gave us a good raising.

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I can knock off a happy ditty pretty easily. Something real — something meaningful and deeper — is harder.

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If I had the chance to do it all over again, I'd do it exactly the same. Wrong or right, it's my life. Sounds like a song, doesn't it?

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I'm not necessarily a warmonger, but I'm not necessarily someone who would want to sit around while we were getting the shit beat out of us either. I'm a second-degree black belt in taekwondo and also kung fu, so I'm a martial artist and I'm not afraid of trouble. I just don't like to look for it.

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Family farmers are small farmers who love the land. They're still not getting enough money for their product and are rapidly losing their battle to stay in business. By helping the American family farmer, we will in turn help ourselves out of the economic hole that we find ourselves in today. It doesn't really matter how we got here; the point is, we have to dig our way out.

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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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Death is not the ending of anything. I believe all of us are only energy that becomes matter. When the matter goes away, the energy still exists. You can't destroy it. It never dies. It manifests itself somewhere else. We are never alone. Even by ourselves, we are not alone. Death is just a door opening to somewhere else. Someday we'll know what that door opens to.

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There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart

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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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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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