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"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"

"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."

"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"

"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."

"So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his time to the glamorous moanings of song, the effect at first on his energy and initiative of mind, if he has any, is to soften it as iron is softened in a furnace, and made workable instead of hard and unworkable: but if he persists and does not break the enchantment, the next stage is that it melts and runs, till the spirit has quite run out of him and his mental sinews (if I may so put it) are cut, and he has become what Homer calls "a feeble fighter"."

"Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies."
Explore more quotes by Willie Nelson


"I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone."


"If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time."


"We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it."


"The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me."


"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."


"I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields."


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