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Willie Nelson Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 29, 1933

Topics

Fun Me Window Writing Look Hard

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Success Relationship Brother Play

Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.

John Otway

Good Live Interesting Doing Year

The essence of my way of doing business is to not accept the traditional way things are done.

Robert Stigwood

Business Doing Done Accept Way

Christians, just like anybody else, want to have an impact on their lives. And if you can find music that helps you have an impact on your family, on your faith, on yourself, then that's the kind of music you want to listen to.

John Tesh

Family Music Faith Yourself Impact

That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's like I haven't written it, it's more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, 'Song of the Red Rock Mountain,' is one of them. I recorded it and thought, 'Where did that come from?'

Alvin Lee

Beauty Creativity Mountain Red Song

I don't want to ever be categorized. I want to be able to hit every genre.

Ski Mask the Slump God

Want Able Genre Hit Every Ever

Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.

Rosie O'Donnell

Stupid Week You Say Point Going

When I moved to Minnesota, I found there was a thriving and determined movement, a grassroots movement, to revitalize the Ojibwe language. And I've never come to be a competent speaker. I have to say that right now. But even learning the amount of Ojibwe that one can at my age is a life-altering experience.

Louise Erdrich

Learning Age Experience Language Say

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

Lisa Scottoline

Woman People Mom Lawyer Want Kind

You can be young and still have views and opinions.

JoJo

Opinions You Young Still Views

It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Yourself Story You Hard Tell

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

Clint Eastwood

Work Loved Him Would Knew Wilder