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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. "

Willie Nelson

Guitar

Distance

Driving

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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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" 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? "

" America, to me, is freedom. "

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Freedom

America

" When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best. "

" 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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House

Lord

" You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. "

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Willie Nelson

You

" 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. "

" And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff. "

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Loved

Far

" Freedom is control in your own life. "

" When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song. "

" 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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