On April 11, 1972, Willie Nelson made his first appearance at Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin
“In Nashville, I was taking advice from the experts — they were telling me what to do. It wasn’t that they were wrong, it’s just that it was wrong for me. Someone said one time that a leader is a guy who sees a lot of people going in one direction and then jumps out in front of them. I don’t know if this is what was happening or not. I might have seen the young people going for the kind of music that I played, so I went to that audience, to get the energy from those young people and it got the attention of the rest of the world.”
– Willie Nelson