I’m not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I’m thrilled to death with life.
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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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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Life and love go on, let the music play.
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Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.
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When you sing, you pray twice.
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You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.
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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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Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.
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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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You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that’s part of it: knowing that you’re not shut out forever, and that there’s a goal you still can reach.
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I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.
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Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.
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Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
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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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My arms are too short to box with God.
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We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.
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