110+ Willie Nelson Quotes On Music, Texas And Lance Armstrong

Willie Nelson is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and activist. He is one of the most recognized and influential musicians of his generation, having written hundreds of songs and releasing over 200 albums. He is known for his unique style of music, which often incorporates elements of country, folk, and jazz. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Willie Nelson on life, music, texas.

Top 10 Willie Nelson Quotes

1. Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
2. The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
3. 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
4. If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson
5. The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.
6. Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.
7. God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.
8. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.
9. If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now.
10. When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Willie Nelson Image Quotes

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

...when you put your life in a good place, good things follow. — Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson Short Quotes

• I'm crazy for trying, crazy for crying, and I'm crazy for loving you.
• There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.
• Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.
• Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind
• When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.
• Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.
• Do something bad a thousand times and it's no big deal. Everyone just goes, "Willie f - up again."
• You can't hang a man for shooting a woman who was trying to steal his horse.
• When evolution has been outlawed, only the outlaws will evolve.
• I'm drowning in whiskey river.

Willie Nelson Quotes About Life

What goes around, comes around. — Willie Nelson

...when you put your life in a good place, good things follow. — Willie Nelson

It's an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It's just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you've got, and move on. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth. — Willie Nelson

I've known straight and gay people all my life. I can't tell the difference... But I'd never marry a guy I didn't like. — Willie Nelson

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

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

The life I love is making music with my friends. — Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson Quotes About Music

We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world. — Willie Nelson

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

I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified. — Willie Nelson

I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

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

I think innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody. — Willie Nelson

Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality. — Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson Quotes About Texas

There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas. — Willie Nelson

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

I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me. — Willie Nelson

When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas. — Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson Quotes About Play

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

(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. 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. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

I like to play small clubs. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

After every tour, I think about hanging up the touring hat, and after a while of not working, I'm ready to play. I think I enjoy playing music more than I enjoy not playing music. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson Quotes About People

I don’t believe in adhering to any rules I don’t support and I didn’t vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you’ll be happy. — Willie Nelson

I like marijuana because it keeps me from killing people. And I think there are a lot of people out there who are just like me. The reason it's not legal is because most people get up in the morning and get high, then forget to go out and vote for it. — Willie Nelson

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? — Willie Nelson

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

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! — Willie Nelson

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

If I started drinking again, there would be a lot of people bringing me pot because I can't handle alcohol. I just am not a good drinker. I get a little alcohol in me and I start trying to change the world, and that's not good. A lot of people are the same way. So that's why I don't drink anymore. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless. — Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson Quotes About Writing

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

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. — Willie Nelson

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing. — Willie Nelson

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. — Willie Nelson

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason. — Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson Quotes About Singing

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

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 Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

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

Willie Nelson Famous Quotes And Sayings

I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs......When I was on drugs I couldn't even find my bike. — Willie Nelson

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 Nelson

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

My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads. — Willie Nelson

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

...when you put your life in a good place, good things follow. — Willie Nelson

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

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. — Willie Nelson

In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell for all eternity... it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong... I didn’t cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and is best kept close to your heart. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

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

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

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

Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you've got to careful and don't overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it. — Willie Nelson

The fight to save family farms isn't just about farmers. It's about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us. It's about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It's about a better America. — Willie Nelson

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". — Willie Nelson

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

Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

Heard you told him that you'd love him 'til the end of time. Now that's the same thing that you told me. — Willie Nelson

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

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

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!' — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

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

I believe in looseness. — Willie Nelson

Vaporizers are good for your lungs. Cigarette smoke will kill you. I never heard of anybody dying from marijuana smoke. Vaporizers I think are smarter. — Willie Nelson

I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again. — Willie Nelson

How would you like to bite that in the ass, develop lock jaw and be dragged to death? — Willie Nelson

When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere. — Willie Nelson

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

Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild. — Willie Nelson

Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation. — Willie Nelson

I just enjoy both working and not working. — Willie Nelson

Great songs stand out wherever they're from. — Willie Nelson

As far as advice goes, an ex-father in law of mine once gave me the best advice I ever heard. He said, "Take my advice and do what you want to." So with that, go on. — Willie Nelson

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

Well, it's a Bloody Mary morning, my baby left without warning. — Willie Nelson

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

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. — Willie Nelson

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

I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'. — Willie Nelson

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

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. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

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

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies. — Willie Nelson

I'm a romantic slob! — Willie Nelson

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

I think there must be safety in numbers. If you f - up enough times, they forget which one you really did. They start thinking, "Well, nobody can be that bad." — Willie Nelson

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time. — Willie Nelson

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

I grew up across the street from, you know, the Villarias, which was a great Mexican family there. In fact, there was three houses right across the street from me. So, day and night, I listened to Mexican music, and I'm sure, you know, my guitar playing, singing, writing, whatever, has a lot of Mexican flavor there, but it comes natural. — Willie Nelson

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. — Willie Nelson

Life Lessons by Willie Nelson

1. Willie Nelson's work is a reminder that hard work and dedication can lead to success, even if it takes a while to get there.
2. He is also an example of how to stay true to yourself and your art, even in the face of adversity.
3. His music is a testament to the power of perseverance and resilience, and a reminder that anything is possible if you put your mind to it.