Willie nelson quotes

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

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.

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.

I believe in looseness.

Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.

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

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.

Just take what you need from the ladies and leave them.

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

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

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.

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

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

One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart.

I'm an old fashioned joint smoker ya know.

I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.

I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton.

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

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

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

Marijuana is like sex: If I don't do it every day I get a headache.

Fortunately, we are not in control.

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

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

If you want to make marijuana legal, you've got to stay straight long enough to f - vote.

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.

I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call "policing the area." That's where you looked around and if there's anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area. And I think that's a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won't have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed.

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

Be careful what you dream: soon your dreams will be dreaming you.

More and more people are finding out the benefits of it - hemp and marijuana. The more they delve into it and research it, the more they realize, Hey wait a minute, we should give this another look.

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.

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

I just enjoy both working and not working.

I'm drowning in whiskey river.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say, "Oh, those folks got kids. They need some books." I'd knock on their door and sell them a set of encyclopedias, and those books were from $300 to $600. I'd look around the house, and if there wasn't that much furniture in the house, I felt a little bad about selling a $600 set of books to people who couldn't afford a couch. So I didn't last at that job very long.

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

I think hemp is one of the greatest plants that God put in the ground, and I don't think anybody has the right to eradicate it. Just because somebody wants to get high with a joint, that's no reason to throw him in jail and take his damn belongings. He's just trying to get well. The mother - 's sick. That's why people drink beer when they come home from work. They're stressed out. That's all grass does. It's a big stress reliever.

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.

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

I'm crazy for trying, crazy for crying, and I'm crazy for loving you.

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.

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

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

When evolution has been outlawed, only the outlaws will evolve.

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

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.

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

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.

If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again

If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now.

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.

When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.

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

Freedom is control in your own life.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Gatewood Galbraith was a good friend, and a tireless advocate for the repeal of the ridiculous ban on hemp & marijuana. His book ‘The Last Free Man Standing’ says it all.

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

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.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

Do something bad a thousand times and it's no big deal. Everyone just goes, "Willie f - up again."

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

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.

Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you.

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

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.

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.

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

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."

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

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.

I smoke pot every day, and I love it!

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.

Small family farmers are the only things that can save us because they take care of the land. Future farmers of America are going to be our heroes. Same with biodiesel, either way we need small family saustainable and organic farmers.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind

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

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.

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".

I had gotten up to two, maybe three, packs (of cigarettes) a day. And my lungs were bothering me and I'd had pneumonia two or three times. And I was also smoking pot, and I decided, well, one of them's got to go. And so I took a pack of Chesterfields and took all the Chesterfields out, rolled up 20 big fat ones and put it in there, and I haven't smoked a cigarette since then.

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.

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.

Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.

You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin' to say.

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.

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

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.

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.

Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.

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.

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

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

When I left Nashville I went to Texas because that's where I came from, and because I was playing in Texas a lot in different places. And I saw hippies and rednecks drinking beer together and smoking dope together and having a good time together and I knew it was possible to get all groups of people together - long hair, short hair, no hair - and music would bring them together.

The life I love is making music with my friends.

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.

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 wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone.

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

If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

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.

Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.

You could try to live monogamously. Good luck.

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

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.

There's a lot of money in selling marijuana. If you can do it legally, that's good. Why should all the criminals make the money? This is what people are thinking. If it's happening, if it's going to be legal, let's tax it and regulate it, like we do with everything else and make some money off this. I think that's one reason why people are talking this a little more seriously.

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.

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.

I got in at 2 with a 10, and woke up at 10 with a 2.