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.
JOHNNY CASHPrisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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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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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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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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Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.
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Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
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Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.
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Until things are brighter. I’m the man in black.
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We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.
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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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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 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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Jesus will not fail me, I shall not be moved.
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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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When you sing, you pray twice.
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The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
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Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.
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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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I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.
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I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.
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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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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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Death and hell are never full, and neither are men’s eyes.
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Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.
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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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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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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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