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.
JOHNNY CASHThe 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.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.
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My arms are too short to box with God.
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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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People call me wild. Not really though, I’m not. I guess I’ve never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I’m country.
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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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Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
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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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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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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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Until things are brighter. I’m the man in black.
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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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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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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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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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