Best quotes by Willie Nelson on Music

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

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• ‟ I grew up across the street from, you know, the Villarias, which was a great Mexican family there. In fact, there was three houses right across the street from me. So, day and night, I listened to Mexican music, and I'm sure, you know, my guitar playing, singing, writing, whatever, has a lot of Mexican flavor there, but it comes natural.

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• ‟ I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

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• ‟ 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.

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