Quotes from 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.

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.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

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

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.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

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

Fortunately, we are not in control.

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.

You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

I like to play small clubs.

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

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

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

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

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

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

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

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

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

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

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

Freedom is control in your own life.