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They’re powerful, those songs. At times they’ve been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.

Johnny Cash

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.
JOHNNY CASH

Believe Desperate Frustration Give Up Myself People
Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.
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Freedom God Myself Prison Soul Wall
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
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Business Exception Money Success World
Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.
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Ears Face Love Stop Yourself
For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
JOHNNY CASH

Burn Myself Ocean Try Yourself
There’s no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.
JOHNNY CASH

Change Grief Hope Loss Transformation Way World Yourself
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.
JOHNNY CASH

Black Crime Hope Hungry Live Myself Poor Prison Time Victim
A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
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Flame Night Rose Sleep Strong White
When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.
JOHNNY CASH

Children Goodness Man Mom Myself Shoot Son
The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don’t go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.
JOHNNY CASH

Burn Excitement Fire Love Ourselves Ring Yourself
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.
JOHNNY CASH

Children Hard Inspirational Music Myself Time
I came to believe in a power much higher than I.
JOHNNY CASH

Believe God Myself Power Spiritual
I’m not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I’m thrilled to death with life.
JOHNNY CASH

Bitter Death Life Myself Nature Thrill
If you’re going to be a Christian, you’re going to change. You’re going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.
JOHNNY CASH

Change Friendship Lose Need Old Yourself
The more I learn, the more excited I get.
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Excitement Learning Myself
Jesus will not fail me, I shall not be moved.
JOHNNY CASH

Failure Faith Hope Move Myself Religious

They’re powerful, those songs. At times they’ve been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.

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