Willie Nelson

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you you wouldnt hurt anybody because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

No place but Texas would I ever roam. No place but Texas, my home, sweet home.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.

I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.

Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.

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

I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

I'm a romantic slob!

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?

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

You know why divorces are so expensive Because theyre worth it.

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

I don't like to think too far ahead.

I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

When Im driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

Freedom is control in your own life.

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

I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today.

I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.

But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me!

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.

It doesnt hurt to feel sad from time to time.

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.

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.

Love is like a dying ember and only memories remain. And through the ages Ill remember blue eyes crying in the rain.

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.

I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.

The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.

When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.

The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

This looks like a December day it looks like weve come to the end of the way.

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

As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is a flower. God put it here.

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

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.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones youll start having positive results

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

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 youll always be happy because its always in the now.

Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.

If a song was ever good, it's still good.

I like to play small clubs.

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'

I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.

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

I just enjoy both working and not working.