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.
JOHNNY CASHGospel 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.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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You’re so heavenly minded, you’re no earthly good.
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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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I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.
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If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.
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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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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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I’m not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I’m thrilled to death with life.
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I came to believe in a power much higher than I.
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Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
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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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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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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
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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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When I think about country music, I think about America.
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