Willie Nelson Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

  Willie Nelson

  Country, Song, Three

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Dec 04, 2013

• Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

  Willie Nelson

  Love, Music, Country

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.99, Penguin

• 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 the truth - that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

  Willie Nelson

  Country, Song, Art

  "Willie Nelson: 'Three Chords and the Truth—That's What a Country Song Is'". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. June 27, 2010.

• When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.

  Willie Nelson

  Song, Fall, Sky

• 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 on in the cotton fields. ... I'm a country songwriter and we write cry-in-your-beer songs. That's what we do. Something that you can slow dance to...I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. ... Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.

  Willie Nelson

  Country, Song, Writing

• Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind

  Willie Nelson

  Song, Always On My Mind, Should Have

  Song: Always On My Mind

• 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 that's required.

  Willie Nelson

  Song, Voice, Singing

• When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.

  Willie Nelson

  Song, Knows

• 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 them they will take you to an even sadder place.

  Willie Nelson

  Country, Song, Sorry

• If a song was ever good, it's still good.

  Willie Nelson

  Song, Stills, Ifs

• 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 steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.

  Willie Nelson

  Country, Song, Powerful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 tour and be on Grand Ole Opry [radio show]. It was the big deal back in those days to play the Grand Ole Opry. And you could travel around the world saying, "Hi, I'm Willie from the Grand Ole Opry".

  Willie Nelson

  Song, Growing Up, Nashville

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

• 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

  Cheating, Song, Writing

  "Willie Nelson: What I've Learned" by Robert Hubert, www.esquire.com. April 29, 2015.

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