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
I got in at 2 with a 10, and woke up at 10 with a 2.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
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.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
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.
Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.
Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.
On the road again, goin' places that I've never been. Seein' things that I may never see again, and I can't wait to get on the road again.
There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.
Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind
If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.
...when you put your life in a good place, good things follow.