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Willie Nelson Quotes

Total quotes: 40
“You know what happens when a politician takes Viagra? He gets taller.”
— Uncle Jesse Duke, The Dukes of Hazzard
Tagged: Viagra, Politicians
“All the Federales say
They could've had him any day
They only let him slip away
Out of kindness I suppose”
— Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Pancho and Lefty
Tagged: Country Lyrics, Country Songs, Western Lyrics
“The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold
And so the story ends we're told”
— Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Pancho and Lefty
Tagged: Country Lyrics, Country Songs, Western Lyrics
“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.”
— Willie Nelson, I Gotta Get Drunk
Tagged: Drinking, Alcoholism
“I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.”
— Willie Nelson, Willie Quotes- Club Luck
Tagged: Country Music, perseverance
“I think all along I knew I would do OK. I live one day at a time. I don’t worry about yesterday and I’m not concerned much with tomorrow.”
— Willie Nelson, Interview: Willie Nelson
Tagged: Carpe Diem, Live for the Moment
“When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.”
— Willie Nelson
Tagged: Fighting, Drinking, Peacemaker, Marijuana
“I saw Gene Autry and Roy Rogers movies every weekend. They were my heroes. Riding my horse, shooting my gun, singing my songs, playing my guitar—that’s what I wanted to do.”
— Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson: 'Three Chords and the Truth—That's What a Country Song Is'
Tagged: Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Cowboy Movies
“Death is not the ending of anything. I believe all of us are only energy that becomes matter. When the matter goes away, the energy still exists. You can’t destroy it. It never dies. It manifests itself somewhere else.”
— Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson: 'Three Chords and the Truth—That's What a Country Song Is'
Tagged: Death, Energy, Matter, energy consumption, Reincarnation
“Memories remind us that every moment of our lives, even the most tragic, have contributed to our strength. We’ve gotten through. We’re still here.”
— Willie Nelson, It's a Long Story: My Life
Tagged: Memories, tragic, strength, Survival, Overcoming
“Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have. My grandmother used to tell me that a hard head makes a sore ass.”
— Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson on Marriage, Drugs, and Freedom
Tagged: Experience, Anger, Redheads, grandmother
“Uncle Jesse: What do you get when you cross a donkey with an onion?

Luke Duke: What?

Uncle Jesse: A piece of ass that brings a tear to your eye.”
— Uncle Jesse Duke, The Dukes of Hazzard
Tagged: Jokes, Donkey, onion, Piece of Ass
“Luke Duke: You thinkin’ about throwin’ that?

Uncle Jesse: Oh, I’m gonna throw it...I was thinkin’ about pussy.”
— Uncle Jesse Duke, The Dukes of Hazzard
Tagged: Thinking, Pussy, Sexual Fantasies
“Along the way you pick up wives and kids and you are responsible for them. You don’t discard them. There is no such thing as ex-wives, only additional wives.”
— Willie Nelson, Interview: Willie Nelson
Tagged: wives, kids, Ex-Wives
“Marijuana is like sex. If I don't do it every day, I get a headache. I think marijuana should be recognized for what it is, as a medicine, an herb that grows in the ground. If you need it, use it.”
— Willie Nelson
Tagged: Marijuana, Sex, Medicine
“Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.”
— Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson on Marriage, Drugs, and Freedom
Tagged: Cruelty, Ignorance, Karma
“There is no such thing as an ex-wife. If you had a relationship, just because you don't live with them anymore doesn't mean that they're a non-human being, and if they want to say hello, then there should be a hello.”
— Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson on Marriage, Drugs, and Freedom
Tagged: ex-wife, Divorce, hello, When Lovers Become Strangers
“Uncle Jesse: Why are divorces so expensive?

Luke Duke: Why?

Uncle Jesse: 'Cause they’re worth it.”
— Uncle Jesse Duke, The Dukes of Hazzard
Tagged: Divorce, expensive, Jokes
“Uncle Jesse: [after Luke crashes through a police roadblock] Give me your goddamn license!

Luke Duke: What license?”
— Uncle Jesse Duke, The Dukes of Hazzard
Tagged: license, Jokes, Goddamn
“Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.”
— Willie Nelson, Willie Quotes- Club Luck
Tagged: Heartbreak, Lovers, jukebox, Country Music
“Uncle Jesse: What do you call a farmer with a sheep under each arm?

Luke Duke: What?

Uncle Jesse: A playboy.”
— Uncle Jesse Duke, The Dukes of Hazzard
Tagged: Farmer, Sheep, Playboy
“I'm just an ole redneck from Texas who ain't a Democrat or Republican, but I can look at a guy and tell whether I like him or not.”
— Willie Nelson
Tagged: Redneck, Texas, Democrat, republican
“It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. 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.”
— Willie Nelson
Tagged: Songwriting, Gift, Poetry
“You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.”
— Willie Nelson, The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart
Tagged: Responsibility, Getting Ahead, blaming
“Being open has helped me. With smoking pot or anything else. It's just a lot easier not to make excuses for who I am and what I do. It has to do with getting from point A to point B, retaining my sanity, and still progressing—taking some lemons and making some lemonade.”
— Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson on Marriage, Drugs, and Freedom
Tagged: Being Open, Smoking Pot, Making excuses
“I don't drink anymore. That was always my biggest problem. I never did cocaine or any of those things. Alcohol was always my enemy, for as far back as I can remember. When I quit drinking and quit smoking cigarettes, a lot of my problems went away.”
— Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson Revisits Old Standards for New ‘Classic’
Tagged: Drinking, Alcoholism, Cocaine, Cigarettes
“It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.”
— Willie Nelson, Interview: Willie Nelson
Tagged: Sadness
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
— Willie Nelson
Tagged: Blessings, Count Your Blessings
“We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the common denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul.”
— Willie Nelson
Tagged: Unity, Diversity, Music
“As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics. ”
— Willie Nelson, The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart
Tagged: Whiskey, smoking, Relaxation, Wisdom, Madness
“Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits—we’re all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn’t matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.”
— Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson: 'Three Chords and the Truth—That's What a Country Song Is'
Tagged: Rednecks, Hippies, Misfits, gay, straight, Happiness
“If a song was ever good, it's still good.”
— Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson Revisits Old Standards for New ‘Classic’
Tagged: Songwriting, Timeless
“I was always a sucker for long-black-haired women.”
— Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson: 'Three Chords and the Truth—That's What a Country Song Is'
Tagged: Long Black Hair, Sucker
“Contradiction exists in everyone. There's really nothing wrong with the fact that the same people who sing ‘Whiskey River’ at the show tonight also sing ‘Amazing Grace.’ When I was back teaching Sunday school, I used to teach the same people on Sunday mornings that I sang to on Saturday nights. Nothing wrong with that, either.”
— Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson on Marriage, Drugs, and Freedom
Tagged: Contradiction, Whiskey River, Amazing Grace, Sunday School
“I had gotten up to two, maybe three, packs (of cigarettes) a day. And my lungs were bothering me and I'd had pneumonia two or three times. And I was also smoking pot, and I decided, well, one of them's got to go. And so I took a pack of Chesterfields and took all the Chesterfields out, rolled up 20 big fat ones and put it in there, and I haven't smoked a cigarette since then.”
— Willie Nelson
Tagged: Cigarettes, smoking, Addiction, Chesterfields, Smoking Pot
“Well, there was a guy, a blacksmith, in Abbott, and he and my granddad both had blacksmith's jobs. I hung around there a lot. And he had a family band. He just let me play because he knew I wanted to work and needed the work. So, I played a guitar in a big polka band with a lot of horns and everything. So, fortunately, no one ever heard me, because I wasn't that great. But I was nine or 10 years old and making eight to 10 dollars a night. So, it was easier than picking cotton.”
— Willie Nelson
Tagged: Texas, Blacksmith, Guitar, Polka, Picking Cotton
“Let the jerks of the world serve as the perfect example of what you don't want to be. You'll be a heck of a lot happier, and in the long run, there's a chance that other person at work will end up asking what your secret is. Why are you the happy one? In other words, don't let your thoughts think you. Besides, if you're really gonna get pissed, don't waste it on your family, friends, or coworkers, save it for something that really matters.”
— Willie Nelson, The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart
Tagged: Jerks, Happiness, Priorities
“A song is a short story. It might have been my buddy Harlan Howard, a writer I met in Nashville in the sixties, who first said a song ain't nothing but three chords and the truth.

Well, songs come easy to me. I've written hundreds of them. I see them as little stories that fall out of our lives and imaginations. If I have to struggle to write a song, I stop before I start. I figure if it don't flow easy, it's not meant to be.

The truth should flow easy. Same for songs and stories. If you overanalyze or torture yourself to bring them to life, something's wrong. Just the way a mountain stream, bubbling with fresh clean water, keeps flowing, stories need to flow free and easy. The source of the water, like the source of the songs, comes from on high. It's a natural thing. It's a beautiful thing.”
— Willie Nelson, It's a Long Story: My Life
Tagged: Songs, Songwriting, Harlan Howard, Nashville, Truth
“Luke Duke: [while Bo and Luke are getting arrested in the courthouse] Well, now, I guess the party’s over.

Boss Hogg: Damn right it is! As long as I’m the County Commissioner in the great State of Georgia, you two are gonna rot in the penitentiary. Cuff them!

Daisy Duke: Excuse me, Rick Shankley? I believe the governor has a statement to make.

Governor Jim Applewhite: I do?

Daisy Duke: Yes, sir. You were going to tell everyone about how these boys are heroes for saving Hazzard County.

Governor Jim Applewhite: As everyone knows, I have always been a great friend to the environment, and these boys are environmental heroes!

Uncle Jesse: And you’re going to pardon them for all of their crimes, huh?

Governor Jim Applewhite: Moreover, as Governor, I hereby pardon these boys for any and all offenses against the great State of Georgia. Go ‘Dogs!

Uncle Jesse: Governor, I want to thank you for pardoning me, too.

Boss Hogg: Pardon you for what?

Uncle Jesse: For this! [Uncle Jesse punches Boss Hogg in the mouth]

Governor Jim Applewhite: Oh, what the hell. I pardon him, too.”
— Uncle Jesse Duke, The Dukes of Hazzard
Tagged: georgia, Penitentiary, Pardon
“I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents….We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton….Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton.”
— Willie Nelson
Tagged: Picking Cotton, Texas, Menial Labor
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