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" All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up? "
Willie Nelson
You
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Music
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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. "
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" The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite. "
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" Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important. "
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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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" Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. "
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" I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style! "
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" Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out. "
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" I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to. "
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" All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it. "
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" You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it. "
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" As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them. "
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" Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it. He pretty much put his stamp on everything. "
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Everything
" We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way. "
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Other
" I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone. "
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" When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best. "
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Best
Driving
" When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas. "
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Driving
" I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today. "
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I Can
" 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. "
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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. "
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You
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" Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there. "
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Writing
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" I just enjoy both working and not working. "
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" 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. "
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Country
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" I'm a romantic slob! "
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" I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. "
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" You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can. "
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" I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control. "
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" I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone. "
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" We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. "
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