Top 140 Willie Nelson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”

— Willie Nelson

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2. “What goes around, comes around.”

— Willie Nelson

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3. “Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.”

— Willie Nelson

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4. “I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday’s gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time.”

— Willie Nelson

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5. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”

— Willie Nelson

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6. “Just can’t wait to get on the road again.”

— Willie Nelson

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7. “The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”

— Willie Nelson

8. “Be gentle with your words – you can’t take them back.”

— Willie Nelson

9. “There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart.”

— Willie Nelson

10. “The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.”

— Willie Nelson

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11. “If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.”

— Willie Nelson

12. “You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.”

— Willie Nelson

13. “The life I love is making music with my friends.”

— Willie Nelson

14. “America, to me, is freedom.”

— Willie Nelson

15. “Freedom is control in your own life.”

— Willie Nelson

16. “Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.”

— Willie Nelson

Featured in: Quotes About Songs, Country Quotes

17. “Fortunately, we are not in control.”

— Willie Nelson

18. “Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.”

— Willie Nelson

19. “If you can be content right now, then you’ll always be content, because it’s always right now.”

— Willie Nelson

20. “You’ll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.”

— Willie Nelson

21. “We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.”

— Willie Nelson

22. “I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now.”

— Willie Nelson

23. “Oh, I think it’s definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it’s maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.”

— Willie Nelson

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24. “I got along without you before I met you and I’ll get along without you a long time after you’re gone.”

— Willie Nelson

25. “I believe that all roads lead to the same place – and that is wherever all roads lead to.”

— Willie Nelson

26. “There’s a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.”

— Willie Nelson

27. “Be careful what you dream: soon your dreams will be dreaming you.”

— Willie Nelson

28. “Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.”

— Willie Nelson

29. “I’m from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there’s no one in control.”

— Willie Nelson

30. “I like myself better when I’m writing regularly.”

— Willie Nelson

31. “Small family farmers are the only things that can save us because they take care of the land. Future farmers of America are going to be our heroes. Same with biodiesel, either way we need small family saustainable and organic farmers.”

— Willie Nelson

32. “Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind.”

— Willie Nelson

33. “Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play.”

— Willie Nelson

34. “In the twilight glow I see her, blue eyes crying in the rain. As we kissed goodbye and parted, I knew we’d never meet again.”

— Willie Nelson

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35. “When you hear me, you know it’s me, regardless of the song.”

— Willie Nelson

36. “If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they’re gone.”

— Willie Nelson

37. “God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.”

— Willie Nelson

38. “I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?”

— Willie Nelson

39. “I’m crazy for trying, crazy for crying, and I’m crazy for loving you.”

— Willie Nelson

40. “I’m drowning in whiskey river.”

— Willie Nelson

41. “I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about – broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.”

— Willie Nelson

42. “Positive thoughts lead to positive actions.”

— Willie Nelson

43. “There’s so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth.”

— Willie Nelson

44. “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.”

— Willie Nelson

45. “You know why divorces are so expensive? They’re worth it.”

— Willie Nelson

46. “If you’ve made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.”

— Willie Nelson

47. “I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.”

— Willie Nelson

48. “I’m an old fashioned joint smoker ya know.”

— Willie Nelson

49. “I smoke pot every day, and I love it!”

— Willie Nelson

50. “When it’s on us, seems like the storm will never pass. But it always does.”

— Willie Nelson