Billy Joe Shaver Quotes & Sayings

I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess
They make the big moves that make me a little less
Even when I win and beat the pants off of the best
I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess — Billy Joe Shaver

Woody Pines is the best band I ever heard in my life I swear. I'm their biggest fan now! — Billy Joe Shaver

But the more you thing about it, I think the best songwriter is the one who makes you feel like you are in the best place in the world when you are listening to his or her songs. The one who makes you understand yourself a little better when your ears hear their words. At that moment, that songwriter is the best. That's the beauty of a song. — Billy Joe Shaver

The Devil made me do it the first time -
the second time I done it on my own — Billy Joe Shaver

You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me. — Billy Joe Shaver

Songwriting is the cheapest psychiatrist I know. — Billy Joe Shaver

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday). — Billy Joe Shaver