The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
JOHNNY CASHWhen I think about country music, I think about America.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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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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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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Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.
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Jesus will not fail me, I shall not be moved.
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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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If you’re going to be a Christian, you’re going to change. You’re going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.
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Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.
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I’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.
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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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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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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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It’s good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people.
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I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.
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I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn’t be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own.
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