Willie Nelson Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

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

“I don't like to think too far ahead.”

“I'm not prejudiced in any way that I can think of. That's just not the guy I am.”

“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.”

“We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 playing, singing, writing, whatever, has a lot of Mexican flavor there, but it comes natural.”

“I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.”