I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you’re mine, I walk the line.
JOHNNY CASHYou can ask the people around me. I don’t give up. I don’t give up. I don’t give – and it’s not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don’t give up. I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he’s a victim of the times.
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Death and hell are never full, and neither are men’s eyes.
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I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.
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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
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If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.
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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
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Life is – the way God has given it to me was just a platter – a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It’s been beautiful.
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As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.
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My arms are too short to box with God.
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Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.
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You’ve got to know your limitations. I don’t know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.
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It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.
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For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
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Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
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If you have political convictions. Keep ’em to yourself
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I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
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I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.
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You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.
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Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time.
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Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.
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Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.
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You can ask the people around me. I don’t give up. I don’t give up. I don’t give – and it’s not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don’t give up. I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.
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When I’m gone I’ll be remembered as the workin’ man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.
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When you sing, you pray twice.
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We’ll all be equal under the grass, and God’s got a heaven for country trash.
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Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.
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