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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.

- Willie Nelson

Play, Distance, About, Gig

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, Play, Think, Qualified

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

Old, More, Another, Round

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

- Willie Nelson

Purpose, Suffering, Own, Unhappiness

You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.

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Worth It, Know, Why, Divorces

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

Other, Concerned, Anybody, Hurt

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

Cruelty, Anybody, Forceful, Hurt

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

Think, Country, I Think, Similarities

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

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Positive, Thoughts, Negative, Positive Results

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.

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Play, Opera, I Write, Blacks

When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too.

- Willie Nelson

Exercise, Advice, Tell, Sissy

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

- Willie Nelson

Think, Here, I Think, Flower

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

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Singing, Influenced, Lot, Cotton Fields

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work.

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Play, Melodies, Before, Early

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

- Willie Nelson

I Am, Think, Guy, Prejudiced

I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.

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Roads, Same, I Believe That, Wherever

I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

- Willie Nelson

Young, Matter, I Think, Older Guys

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.

- Willie Nelson

Fact, Mexican, In Fact, Guitar Playing

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

- Willie Nelson

Jazz, Very, Grew, Wills

When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.

- Willie Nelson

Through, Other, I Think, Well-Adjusted

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

Church, Old, Social, Recite

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

- Willie Nelson

Think, Through, Always, Normally

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.

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Small, Six, Months, Divorced

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

- Willie Nelson

Unhappy, More, Made, Everything Else

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

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Time, Sad, Feel, From Time To Time

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.

- Willie Nelson

Loved, Far, Speedy, Guitars

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

- Willie Nelson

Play, Give, Which, Play Music

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

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Other, Been, Maybe, Any Other Way

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

- Willie Nelson

About, Lot, Extent, Email

Great songs stand out wherever they're from.

- Willie Nelson

Great, Stand, Songs, Wherever

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