If you have political convictions. Keep ’em to yourself
JOHNNY CASHStop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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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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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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I came to believe in a power much higher than I.
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Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.
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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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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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We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.
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Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.
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The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.
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When God forgave me, I figured I’d better do it too.
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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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I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you’re mine, I walk the line.
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Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
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Life and love go on, let the music play.
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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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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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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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All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.
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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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For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
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A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.
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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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Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.
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Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.
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Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.
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I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.
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