Quotes by Willie Nelson

About Willie Nelson:

Willie Hugh Nelson is an American singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist, author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger (1975) and Stardust (1978), made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. He was one of the main figures of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. Nelson has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and has been involved in activism for the use of biofuels and the legalization of marijuana.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

Willie Nelson

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

Willie Nelson

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.

Willie Nelson

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.

Willie Nelson

I grew up across the street from, you know, the Villarias, which was a great Mexican family there. In fact, there was three houses right across the street from me. So, day and night, I listened to Mexican music, and I'm sure, you know, my guitar play...

Willie Nelson

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

Willie Nelson

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Willie Nelson

I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.

Willie Nelson

I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.

Willie Nelson

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.

Willie Nelson

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.

Willie Nelson

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

Willie Nelson

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

Willie Nelson

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.

Willie Nelson

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.

Willie Nelson

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

Willie Nelson

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.

Willie Nelson

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

Willie Nelson

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,...

Willie Nelson

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.

Willie Nelson

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

Willie Nelson

Author Bio

  • NameWillie Nelson
  • DescriptionAmerican country music singer-songwriter.
  • AliasesRed Headed Stranger; Shotgun Willie; Willie Hugh Nelson
  • BornApril 30, 1933
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Writer; Actor; Singer; Musician; Songwriter; Composer
  • WorksCrazy
  • AwardsGrammy Lifetime Achievement Award; Grammy Legend Award