Willie Nelson Quotes - Page 7

Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.

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.

My fans are very forgiving. So are my wives and my kids.

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

Horses were a way to travel to get to where we are today, and it is our job to protect them.

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

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.

I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that's not a bad idea.

In the twilight glow I see her, blue eyes crying in the rain. As we kissed goodbye and parted, I knew we'd never meet again.

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

I like to play small clubs.

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.

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

I'm a little prejudiced when it comes to horses. I have always loved them.

Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out.

I still probably smoke as much as I ever did!

Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U.S. economy, our unwanted dependence on foreign oil, and the gasping environment, it could also help the family farmers out of this tragic dilemma they have found themselves in through no fault of their own.

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

There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it.

A lot of country music is sad.

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 smoke as many joints as I used to.

It was and is always nice to work with the kids.

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

My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.