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" I just enjoy both working and not working. "
Willie Nelson
Both
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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" I don't like to think too far ahead. "
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" If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves. "
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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 didn't come here and I ain't leavin'. "
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" 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. "
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" And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff. "
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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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" Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true. "
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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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" It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time. "
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" Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!' "
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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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Lord
Up
" If a song was ever good, it's still good. "
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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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Ideas
" Great songs stand out wherever they're from. "
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" There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies. "
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Many
Must
" I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style! "
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" Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. "
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Song
Country
" 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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Play
World
" You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it. "
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Know
Why
" 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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Years
Time
" You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. "
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" 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. "
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" I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. "
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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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" 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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