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(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.

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Willie Nelson
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: April 10
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If you want to make marijuana legal, you've got to stay straight long enough to f - vote.
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My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band had another blacksmith shop in Abbott, but he liked me. All he had was horns and drums, and I was set up over there with my little guitar with no amps or nothing. I would play as loud as I wanted to, and nobody could hear me.
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We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul.
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Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U.S. economy, our unwanted dependence on foreign oil, and the gasping environment, it could also help the family farmers out of this tragic dilemma they have found themselves in through no fault of their own.
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Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.
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All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?
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Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless.
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A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.
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When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.
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The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.
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Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.
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There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again.
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I'm a little prejudiced when it comes to horses. I have always loved them.
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You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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You could try to live monogamously. Good luck.
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