Willie Nelson is one of the most successful country music artists of all time. He has released over 200 albums, won multiple Grammy Awards, and is widely considered to be a living legend. Despite his success, Nelson has had many ups and downs in his life, including a period of heavy drug use in the 1970s. However, he has always managed to come back stronger than ever. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at the life and career of Willie Nelson.
Discover the best Work, Music, Love, Time, Life, Songs quotes from Willie Nelson, and much more.
Summary
- About Willie Nelson
- Willie Nelson Quotes About Music
- Willie Nelson Quotes On Life
- Willie Nelson Quotes About Love
- Willie Nelson Quotes About Songs
- Willie Nelson Quotes About Time
- Willie Nelson Quotes Regarding Work
About Willie Nelson
WILLIE NELSON QUOTES ABOUT MUSIC
A lot of country music is sad. — Willie Nelson
Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music. — Kris Kristofferson
There’s a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world. — Willie Nelson
Look at me! I can go from ‘Donny and Marie’ to Sam Peckinpah to Radio City Music Hall in one week. — Kris Kristofferson
The closest I’ve come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That’s why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it. — Kris Kristofferson
There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it. — 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
Those people out there like good music. They don’t stop and ask themselves, ‘Is it country or rock and roll?’ If they like it, they will tell you. — Willie Nelson
All I do is play music and golf–which one do you want me to give up? — Willie Nelson
Dylan’s relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime–they opened up country music. — Kris Kristofferson
Oh, I think it’s definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it’s maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality. — Willie Nelson
I think innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody. — Willie Nelson
I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. — 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
After every tour, I think about hanging up the touring hat, and after a while of not working, I’m ready to play. I think I enjoy playing music more than I enjoy not playing music. — Willie Nelson
WILLIE NELSON QUOTES ON LIFE
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life. — Kris Kristofferson
Let’s get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let’s take a stand for personal freedom. — Willie Nelson
I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for–for its art. — Kris Kristofferson
There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart — Willie Nelson
I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life. — Kris Kristofferson
There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again. — Willie Nelson
I’ve known straight and gay people all my life. I can’t tell the difference… But I’d never marry a guy I didn’t like. — Willie Nelson
Freedom is control in your own life. — Willie Nelson
I have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day. — Kris Kristofferson
I enjoy looking back on my life. I’m thinking seriously about starting to write about it. — Kris Kristofferson
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. — Kris Kristofferson
Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I’m learning the value of saying no. That’s very important. — Willie Nelson
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. — Willie Nelson
There’s so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth. — Willie Nelson
I’ve had a life of all kinds of experiences–most of them good. And I’ve got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble. — Kris Kristofferson
It’s an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It’s just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you’ve got, and move on. — Willie Nelson
WILLIE NELSON QUOTES ABOUT LOVE
To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you’re doing the right thing. — Kris Kristofferson
You will never find love until you stop looking. — 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
Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain. — Willie Nelson
Inside every cowboy there’s a lady who’d love to slip out. — Willie Nelson
God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere. — Willie Nelson
Being in love with a lot of people is incompatible with a stable family life. — Kris Kristofferson
Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they’re all different. I can’t really pick out favourites. — Kris Kristofferson
I smoke pot every day, and I love it! — Willie Nelson
The life I love is making music with my friends. — Willie Nelson
WILLIE NELSON QUOTES ABOUT SONGS
If a song was ever good, it’s still good. — Willie Nelson
Great songs stand out wherever they’re from. — Willie Nelson
When you hear me, you know it’s me, regardless of the song. — Willie Nelson
Three chords and the truth–that’s what a country song is. — Willie Nelson
I don’t think I’m that good a singer. I can’t think of a song that I’ve written that I don’t like the way somebody else sings it better. — Kris Kristofferson
I’ve been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11. — Kris Kristofferson
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In Willie Nelson Statements
You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It’s all about the inflection. — 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
Havin’ Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play. — Kris Kristofferson
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 used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they’re writing better songs than I was at their age. — Kris Kristofferson
I’ve never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote. — Kris Kristofferson
When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground. — Willie Nelson
WILLIE NELSON QUOTES ABOUT TIME
The most valuable thing to me seems to be time, and with time, I can be great. I have been… and I will be. — Kris Kristofferson
If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they’re gone. — Willie Nelson
Every album I’ve made is about what I’m experiencing at the time. — Kris Kristofferson
I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn’t make any money. — 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
I been a long time leaving but I’m going to be a long time gone. — Willie Nelson
When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it’s just the opposite. — Kris Kristofferson
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
I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now — Willie Nelson
The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young. — Kris Kristofferson
It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time. — Willie Nelson
I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday’s gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time. — Willie Nelson
Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don’t know that I’m getting better, but I’m certainly running out of time. — Kris Kristofferson
Heard you told him that you’d love him ’til the end of time. Now that’s the same thing that you told me. — 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
There was time in the first half of the ’80s when what I was saying on the stage was controversial. A lot of things I was talking about–Nicaragua and American foreign policy. — Kris Kristofferson
I am grateful every morning I wake up. I’ve a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other. — Kris Kristofferson
Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind — Willie Nelson
I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my peers were at least 10 years younger than I was. I felt like an old has–been at the time. — Kris Kristofferson
I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world. — Kris Kristofferson
WILLIE NELSON QUOTES REGARDING WORK
It was and is always nice to work with the kids. — Willie Nelson
I think it’s kind of odd that ‘This Old Road’ was the first video I ever did. Because of all of the work I had done in films and everything, you’d think I would have done a video before that. — Kris Kristofferson
I watched Dylan record ‘Blonde On Blonde’ in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible. — Kris Kristofferson
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end. — Kris Kristofferson
I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that’s about all that’s required. — Willie Nelson
To me, the best love songs work on two–maybe three–different levels, where you’re talking about the person who you’re right opposite, and all the people like that. — Kris Kristofferson
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. — Willie Nelson
I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had–you know, family I live with; and I’ve been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville. — Kris Kristofferson
I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway. — Kris Kristofferson
I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places. — Kris Kristofferson
I’m not prejudiced in any way that I can think of. That’s just not the guy I am. — Willie Nelson
Do something bad a thousand times and it’s no big deal. Everyone just goes, “Willie f–up again.” — Willie Nelson
When I’m driving the highway by myself is when I write best. — Willie Nelson