Willie Nelson Quotes

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

Playing live if the thing I love doing best.

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

It doesn't matter where we are. We can be marching down the streets of New Orleans, or we can be onstage in front of 15,000 people. As long as I know that I'm about to put my horn to my mouth and play some notes, that's what I most look forward to.

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

I played my first show when I was 17, and that was a big moment. I realized it was something I could keep doing.

I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.

I love my regular job playing with Alice Cooper, I love doing my solo stuff, I love doing guest spots and guest tours. So I just love to play, and I'll play with anybody that'll have me, just about.

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

I think playing music is one of my great joys in life.

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I'm a happy man.

When you commit to being a musician, I don't think you're really sure or care about when you're going to pay the bills. I don't think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

Playing a concert for 2 hours is pie. I would do that every minute of every day if I could. I love to perform. It's the 22 hours before the next show that kills you.

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.