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 CASHI’m not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That’s what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I’ve been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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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.
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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 wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas.
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There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I’m the biggest sinner of them all.
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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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Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.
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Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.
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There’s a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there’s a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.
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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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Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.
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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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When I think about country music, I think about America.
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I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.
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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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The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.
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