You’re so heavenly minded, you’re no earthly good.
JOHNNY CASHIt’s good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.
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Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God’s holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.
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Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable but most of all, it’s having those loved ones.
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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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I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.
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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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Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
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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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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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I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.
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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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When I’m gone I’ll be remembered as the workin’ man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.
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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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Death and hell are never full, and neither are men’s eyes.
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Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.
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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
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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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You’ve got to know your limitations. I don’t know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.
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Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.
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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.
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It’s good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.
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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.
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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 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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