2. “Hope remains when pride is gone, and it keeps you moving on.”
3. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
4. “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.”
5. “You’ll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.”
6. “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.”
7. “The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
8. “We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.”
9. “If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they’re gone.”
10. “Positive thoughts lead to positive actions.”
11. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
12. “We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world.”
13. “You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.”
14. “It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.”
15. “The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.”
16. “If you had not fallen, then I would not have found you.”
17. “What goes around, comes around.”
18. “When evolution has been outlawed, only the outlaws will evolve.”
19. “There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart.”
20. “Death is not the ending of anything.”
21. “Be gentle with your words, you can’t take them back.”
22. “If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you.”
23. “Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul.”
24. “If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.”
25. “There is no such thing as a normal person. There is just you and me.”
26. “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 forcefully than you send it out.”
27. “Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt.”
28. “I believe in looseness.”
29. “You know inside whether it’s right. But you still have to choose to do it.”
30. “Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.”
31. “If you can be content right now, then you’ll always be content because it’s always right now.”
32. “I am the only person who can set me free from what might have been.”
33. “You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody.”
34. “Memories remind us that every moment of our lives, even the most tragic, has contributed to our strength. We’ve gotten through. We’re still here.”
35. “I got along without you before I met you and I’ll get along without you a long time after you’re gone.”
36. “If you’ve made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.”
37. “I believe that all roads lead to the same place and that is wherever all roads lead to.”
38. “God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.”
39. “As adults, we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.”
41. “It’s good to change. If the change brings about confusion, who cares? Confusion makes you think. And that’s another good thing.”
41. “You know I’ll always love you and I can’t forget the days when you were mine.”
42. “Do not corner something you know is meaner than you. Keep skunks of all kinds at a distance. If you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.”
43. “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!’”
44. “Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.”
45. “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.”
46. “And when I die, put it on my stone. God said, ‘Sucker get your bad ass home. I wasn’t Superman. I wasn’t Superman.’”
47. “I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs. When I was on drugs I couldn’t even find my bike.”
48. “I don’t remember Moses writing, ‘Thou shalt not kill’ unless you think you have a good reason.”
49. “Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I’m on a bus for 22 hours. It’s not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.”
50. “Gatewood Galbraith was a good friend and a tireless advocate for the repeal of the ridiculous ban on hemp and marijuana. His book, ‘The Last Free Man Standing’ says it all.”
51. “You know why divorces are so expensive? They’re worth it.”
52. “Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and natural stone.”
53. “The nightlife, it ain’t no good life, but it’s my life.”
54. “I like marijuana because it keeps me from killing people. And I think there are a lot of people out there who are just like me.”
55. “Three chords and the truth, that’s what a country song is.”
56. “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.”
57. “When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.”
58. “There’s a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.”
59. “A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music.”
60. “There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like.”
61. “Great songs stand out wherever they’re from.”
62. “I think innately know that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody.”
63. “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.”
64. “You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It’s all about the inflection.”
65. “I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.”
66. “If a song was ever good, it’s still good.”
67. “I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there’s a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don’t think it’s my finest work.”
68. “The life I love is making music with my friends.”
69. “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.”
70. “I knew you’d love me as long as you wanted and then someday you’d leave me for somebody new.”
71. “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.”
72. “When you hear me, you know it’s me, regardless of the song.”
73. “There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.”
74. “Forgiving you is easy but forgetting seems to take the longest time.”
75. “All I do is play music and golf. Which one do you want me to give up?”
76. “Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.”
77. “I guess if you can’t sing, you better have a style!”
78. “I was influenced a lot by those around me. There was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.”
79. “I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that’s not a bad idea.”
80. “I knew someday that you would fly away for love’s the greatest healer to be found. So leave me if you need to, I will still remember.”
81. “Now this old world of ours is full of trouble. This old world would also better be. If we’d find more Bibles on the tables.”
82. “And I’ll bet you dread spending another lonely night with me. But lonely walls, I’ll keep you company.”
83. “When we kissed goodbye and parted I knew we’d never meet again.”
84. “Love is like a dying ember and only memories remain. And through the ages I’ll remember, blue eyes crying in the rain.”
85. “I like myself better when I’m writing regularly.”
86. “I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans. The blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today.”
87. “When I’m driving the highway by myself is when I write best.”
88. “I don’t like to think too far ahead.”
89. “Just a country boy who’s learning that the pitfalls of the city are extremely real.”
90. “I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn’t make any money.”
91. “If I only had one arm to hold you. Better yet if I had none at all. Then I wouldn’t have two arms that ache for you and I’d have one less memory to recall.”
92. “I’m not prejudiced in any way that I can think of. That’s just not the guy I am.”
93. “I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.”
94. “I thought I could make it by my own talents. That’s what I wanted to prove.”
95. “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.”
96. “I’m from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there’s no one in control.”
97. “Gay or straight? So what? It doesn’t matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.”
98. “I just enjoy both working and not working.”
99. “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.”
100. “I think people need to be educated about the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?”
101. “What has changed is that nothing has changed, that’s what has made me more unhappy than everything else.”
102. “We’ve already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn’t make sense any other way.”
103. “I believe forgiving is the only way that I’ll find peace of mind.”
104. “If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.”
105. “The whole house came up and I came up with it. I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.”
106. “A lot of people make money off of fear and negativity and anyway they can feed it to you is to their benefit in a lot of ways. You can’t avoid it completely. You have to be open enough that shit doesn’t stick on you, it goes through because you are gonna be hit and bombarded all the time with negativity. You just let things go on through without trying to stop them or block them.”
107. “Fortunately, we are not in control.”
108. “It was and is always nice to work with the kids.”
109. “I believe all of us are only energy that becomes matter.”
110. “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.”
111. “Life and water are inseparable. Three-quarters of the earth’s surface is covered by water, just as three-quarters of your body is made up of water. Even in the driest desert where rain may come just once every few years, the cycles of life are based on waiting for the arrival of water. Our bodies are not so patient.”
112. “Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play.”
113. “I think all along I knew I would do okay.”
114. “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.”
115. “I didn’t come here and I ain’t leavin’.”
116. “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.”
117. “Let the jerks of the world serve as the perfect example of what you don’t want to be. You’ll be a heck of a lot happier, and in the long run, there’s a chance that other people at work will end up asking what your secret is.”
118. “I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can, must have some sort of responsibility, because they’re in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.”
119. “Oh, I think it’s definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it’s maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.”
