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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. "

Willie Nelson

Window

Writing

Bus

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" I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys. "

" I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. "

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" You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection. "

" 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. "

" Great songs stand out wherever they're from. "

" You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it. "

" 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. "

" 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 influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields. "

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Singing

" 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. "

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

" I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control. "

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

" 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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Old

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. "

" If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time. "

" If a song was ever good, it's still good. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like to play small clubs. "

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