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 CASHI’m not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I’m thrilled to death with life.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.
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You’re so heavenly minded, you’re no earthly good.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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I came to believe in a power much higher than I.
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Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.
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Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.
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All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren’t better. I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse.
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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.
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For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
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The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.
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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.
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The more I learn, the more excited I get.
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