Zitat des Tages von Willie Nelson:
If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
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.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.
Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it. He pretty much put his stamp on everything.
We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.
I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.
There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.
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.
Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.
I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.
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.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
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?
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!
If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.
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.
The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.
I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
Great songs stand out wherever they're from.
I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
I'm not prejudiced in any way that I can think of. That's just not the guy I am.
I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.
There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.
When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.
I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.
We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way.
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 am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.
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.
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.