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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. "

Willie Nelson

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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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" Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That's what I wanted to prove. "

" I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work. "

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

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" Freedom is control in your own life. "

" I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude. "

" What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else. "

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" I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. "

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" I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money. "

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" 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'm not prejudiced in any way that I can think of. That's just not the guy I am. "