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 CASHI read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.
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You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that’s part of it: knowing that you’re not shut out forever, and that there’s a goal you still can reach.
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Death and hell are never full, and neither are men’s eyes.
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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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Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.
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You’re so heavenly minded, you’re no earthly good.
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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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The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.
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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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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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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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Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.
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I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.
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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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You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.
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