Willie Nelson Quotes

I text and email my friends and family a lot, but ... -Willie Nelson

I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.

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

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This quote acknowledges the normality and importance of occasionally feeling sad. It implies that experiencing sadness is a natural and necessary part of the human emotional spectrum. It suggests that allowing ourselves to feel sadness can be a healthy and cathartic experience.

When 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.

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!'

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.

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country... -Willie Nelson

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

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.

All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, ... -Willie Nelson

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

I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience. That's why I also believe in reincarnation, that we were put here with ideas to pass around.

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.

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.

I'm a romantic slob!

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive o... -Willie Nelson

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

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 started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work.

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 lif... -Willie Nelson

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

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Sharing a personal experience of how adopting a gratitude practice positively transformed one's life. Suggesting that recognizing and appreciating one's blessings can lead to a profound shift in perspective and overall well-being.

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?

Freedom is control in your own life.

America, to me, is freedom.

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