Daddy Nelson bought him his first guitar when he was six—along with a chord book he studied like scripture. By seven, most kids are learning how to write—but Willie? He was writing his own songs. "Mama and Daddy Nelson gave Bobbie and me two gifts that saved our lives," Willie would later say. "Love and music." But soon thereafter, heartbreak struck again when Willie's beloved grandfather died of pneumonia. A grief-stricken Willie sat down with his Stella guitar and started writing songs about what he was feeling.
By the time he was a teenager, Willie was playing his songs in rough honky-tonks across central Texas. After graduating from Abbott High School in 1950, he enlisted in the Air Force, but a bad back got him discharged after just nine months. So he came home, married a 16-year-old waitress named Martha Matthews, started a family, and continued making music.
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But on Dec. 23, 1969, his Tennessee house burned to the ground and Willie decided to move back to Texas. By 1972, he'd grown his hair long, started wearing a bandana and a beat-up t-shirt, and pioneered a sound called "outlaw country." Nashville suits told him that his 1975 album Red Headed Stranger was too weird to sell. Nelson was undeterred and it went platinum.
Throughout his life, Willie Nelson has both survived and achieved the unthinkable—and that's why he's today's quote of the day.
Quote of the Day by Willie Nelson
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Because gratitude isn't a feeling that just suddenly happens to you once you've made it big. It's a practice you choose—day after day—as you're chasing your goals and dreams. When you choose gratitude, the world around you actually starts to look different—and your life becomes different.
The decision to count your blessings—choosing to focus on what's good in your life, especially when things feel bad—rewires the way your brain processes everything else. The bills that felt overwhelming feel a little lighter and the slights that stung start to feel a little smaller. Using your energy to focus on the positive is so much healthier than wasting energy on the negative.
More Quotes by Willie Nelson
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.""There's nothing wrong with being a little crazy. Sometimes that's the only way to get through life.""Freedom is control in your own life.""99 percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.""Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there."Related: Next Up:
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