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 we did the first one, I really thought that one would be all that would be necessary. Everybody would say 'Oh yeah, the farmers are getting screwed here, let's fix that,'
What has changed is that nothing has changed. . . . That's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
Mainly because I'd already been paid on it . . . and paid pretty good.
Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.
There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart
If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now.
Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.
I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
I just enjoy both working and not working.
There's a lot of money in selling marijuana. If you can do it legally, that's good. Why should all the criminals make the money? This is what people are thinking. If it's happening, if it's going to be legal, let's tax it and regulate it, like we do with everything else and make some money off this. I think that's one reason why people are talking this a little more seriously.
When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.
(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.
The life I love is making music with my friends.
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.