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 CASHYou build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
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When I think about country music, I think about America.
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The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
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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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Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.
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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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When God forgave me, I figured I’d better do it too.
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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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I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.
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You’re so heavenly minded, you’re no earthly good.
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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
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I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.
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For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
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Until things are brighter. I’m the man in black.
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The ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.
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Jesus will not fail me, I shall not be moved.
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