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
When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.
I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again.
When I left Nashville I went to Texas because that's where I came from, and because I was playing in Texas a lot in different places. And I saw hippies and rednecks drinking beer together and smoking dope together and having a good time together and I knew it was possible to get all groups of people together - long hair, short hair, no hair - and music would bring them together.
There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.
My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing.
As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.
The winds of change are always blowingAnd every time I try to stayThe winds of change continue blowingAnd they just carry me away.
The song's been in the closet for 20 years. The timing's right for it to come out.
completely in line with what I'm doing. Without getting too philosophical, I sort of look at life as being one scene after another anyway. That's true.
This song's been in the closet for 20 years.
We just about threw away the whole store and restocked it,
I think this is a great thing that's happening. It's good for the country, it's good for Oklahoma, it's good for all of us.
I'd like to see this happen time and time again, thousands of times across the country.
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.