Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelsonis an American musician, singer, songwriter, author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie, combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Strangerand Stardust, made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. He was one of the main figures of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. Nelson has acted in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth29 April 1933
CityAbbot, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Well, it's a Bloody Mary morning, my baby left without warning.
My sister played the piano. She's two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.
Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.
Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.
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.
I believe in looseness.
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.
When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.
I'm an old fashioned joint smoker ya know.
The fight to save family farms isn't just about farmers. It's about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us. It's about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It's about a better America.
America, to me, is freedom.
What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.
And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.