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" 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. "

Willie Nelson

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

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

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" I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience. That's why I also believe in reincarnation, that we were put here with ideas to pass around. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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? "

" Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues. "

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" 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! "

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" 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. "