"I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to."
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"I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton."
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"You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people."
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"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."
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"I think hemp is one of the greatest plants that God put in the ground, and I don't think anybody has the right to eradicate it. Just because somebody wants to get high with a joint, that's no reason to throw him in jail and take his damn belongings. He's just trying to get well. The mother - 's sick. That's why people drink beer when they come home from work. They're stressed out. That's all grass does. It's a big stress reliever."
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"There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas."
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"When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground."
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"When I left Nashville I went to Texas because that's where I came from, and because I was playing in Texas a lot in different places. And I saw hippies and rednecks drinking beer together and smoking dope together and having a good time together and I knew it was possible to get all groups of people together - long hair, short hair, no hair - and music would bring them together."
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"Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind"
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"Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem."
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"When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say, "Oh, those folks got kids. They need some books." I'd knock on their door and sell them a set of encyclopedias, and those books were from $300 to $600. I'd look around the house, and if there wasn't that much furniture in the house, I felt a little bad about selling a $600 set of books to people who couldn't afford a couch. So I didn't last at that job very long."
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"I got in at 2 with a 10, and woke up at 10 with a 2."
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"Freedom is control in your own life."
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"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."
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"I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times."
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"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."
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"When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too."
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"Do something bad a thousand times and it's no big deal. Everyone just goes, "Willie f - up again.""
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"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."
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"If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it."
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