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
It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.
There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.
The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.
I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.
I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
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!
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 just enjoy both working and not working.
I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?
We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.
If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
I don't like to think too far ahead.
Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.
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.
I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.
Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.
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?
