A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
JOHNNY CASHDon’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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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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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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We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.
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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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The ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.
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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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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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For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
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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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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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Life and love go on, let the music play.
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It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.
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Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.
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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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