Willie Nelson Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Willie Nelson

  Moving, Writing, Winter

  Source: country4you.com

• I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

  Willie Nelson

  Peace, Writing, Thinking

• When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

  Willie Nelson

  Writing, Driving, Highways

• 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

• I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

  Willie Nelson

  Writing

• 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.

  Willie Nelson

  Couple, Fun, Book

• Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.

  Willie Nelson

  Wise, Writing, Cynical

  Willie Nelson, Bud Shrake, Edwin Shrake (2000). “Willie: An Autobiography”, p.144, Rowman & Littlefield

• 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.

• (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.

  Willie Nelson

  Writing, Eight, Years

  "Willie Nelson: 'If We Made Marijuana Legal, We'd Save a Whole Lotta Money and Lives'" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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