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Heard you told him that you'd love him 'til the end of time. Now that's the same thing that you told me.
I think innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody.
Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless.
I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me!
The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.
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.
Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.
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.
Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'
I've known straight and gay people all my life. I can't tell the difference... But I'd never marry a guy I didn't like.
I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.
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.
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.
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.
Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That's what I wanted to prove.
You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.
I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified.
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.
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.
On the road again, goin' places that I've never been. Seein' things that I may never see again, and I can't wait to get on the road again.
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.
Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.
Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom.
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.
Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you.
I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.
Vaporizers are good for your lungs. Cigarette smoke will kill you. I never heard of anybody dying from marijuana smoke. Vaporizers I think are smarter.
I don’t believe in adhering to any rules I don’t support and I didn’t vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you’ll be happy.
I just enjoy both working and not working. And fortunately, I work enough where I get that out of my system, and then we take a few days off, take a rest.
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.
I think there must be safety in numbers. If you f - up enough times, they forget which one you really did. They start thinking, "Well, nobody can be that bad."
Every now and then I'll think of something to put back in the show. I just kind of play it off the top of my head. If I do it that way it keeps it kinda fresh.
My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.
I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.
It's an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It's just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you've got, and move on.
Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.
As far as advice goes, an ex-father in law of mine once gave me the best advice I ever heard. He said, "Take my advice and do what you want to." So with that, go on.
If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.
I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.
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.
Gatewood Galbraith was a good friend, and a tireless advocate for the repeal of the ridiculous ban on hemp & marijuana. His book ‘The Last Free Man Standing’ says it all.
When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.
Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.
All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it.
Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it. He pretty much put his stamp on everything.
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