Quotes from Willie Nelson

Get in there. Sing the song. Get out. I'm not big on a hundred takes and a thousand overdubs. My kind of singing isn't meant to be perfect. It's meant to reflect the imperfections of a human being like me. After a couple of takes, that reflection is pretty accurate.

Do Right Woman, Do Right Man." I sang it nice and slow

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

I think I need to keep being creative not to prove anything but because it makes me happy just to do it... I think trying to be creative, keeping busy, has a lot to do with keeping you alive.

If you ain't crazy, there's something wrong with you.

We on the coast, Zeke?" I asked. "Afraid not, Willie," he said. "Where are we?" "Weatherford, Texas." Weatherford is barely twenty-five miles west of Fort Worth.

That's the moment I saw my home in his eyes. Maybe it was just a shared moment of smart-assedness.

It's good to change. If the change brings about confusion, who cares? Confusion makes you think. And that's another good thing.

I sang 'em all—"Night Life," "Funny How Time Slips Away," "Crazy," "Mr. Record Man," "I Gotta Get Drunk," "The Party's Over.

When it comes to persecuting people for pot, there's a long list of horror stories. The thing that gets me is, why? Why waste precious law enforcement resources on bullshit? I

When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind," said Peale, "which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

Family. Family said it all. Fifty years later, the name's the same. Family is the currency that never devalues. Family is beyond value. The priceless thing that enriches our lives and our work.

The most dangerous thing you can do with marijuana. Is get caught with it.

My mother, Myrtle, once wrote...I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism by developing love for all humanity...we all become better people just by trying to ban negativity from our thoughts and our lives.

pick up Trigger and see where this new

Some people say I sing behind the beat, but I'm in front of it sometimes too. I know where I am, and that's where I want to be.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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