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Song Quotes by Willie Nelson
- I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went…
- I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like…
- A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and…
- I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all…
- Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind
- If a song was ever good, it's still good.
- At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a…
- When I was growing up, Nashville was the place to go if you had songs to sell and thought you had talent and wanted to…
- When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.
- Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.
- When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.
- Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to…
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