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 have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.
If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again.
Let the jerks of the world serve as the perfect example of what you don't want to be. You'll be a heck of a lot happier, and in the long run, there's a chance that other person at work will end up asking what your secret is. Why are you the happy one? In other words, don't let your thoughts think you. Besides, if you're really gonna get pissed, don't waste it on your family, friends, or coworkers, save it for something that really matters.
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.
Mainly because I'd already been paid on it . . . and paid pretty good.
I have a lot of respect for the military. I like to show them that I support them every chance I get. ... We get as much out of it as (the soldiers).