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.
JOHNNY CASHUntil things are brighter. I’m the man in black.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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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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We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.
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A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
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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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For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
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The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
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Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.
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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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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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Jesus will not fail me, I shall not be moved.
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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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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
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There’s no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.
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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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I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.
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