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" I don't like to think too far ahead. "
Willie Nelson
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" I just enjoy both working and not working. And fortunately, I work enough where I get that out of my system, and then we take a few days off, take a rest. "
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" I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified. "
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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. "
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" 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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" All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up? "
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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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" When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. "
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" Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach. "
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" We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way. "
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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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" I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines. "
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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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" America, to me, is freedom. "
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" Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. "
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" 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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" 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 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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" I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth. "
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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? "
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" If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time. "
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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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" When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best. "
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" You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. "
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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 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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