“Well, there was a guy, a blacksmith, in Abbott, and he and my granddad both had blacksmith's jobs. I hung around there a lot. And he had a family band. He just let me play because he knew I wanted to work and needed the work. So, I played a guitar in a big polka band with a lot of horns and everythi…”— Willie Nelson, en.wikiquote.org
“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 pa…”— Willie Nelson, en.wikiquote.org