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.
JOHNNY CASHPrisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.
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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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We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.
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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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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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Jesus will not fail me, I shall not be moved.
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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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It’s good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.
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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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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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The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.
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You’re so heavenly minded, you’re no earthly good.
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I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he’s a victim of the times.
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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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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.
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