The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
JOHNNY CASHYou 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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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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Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.
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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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The ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.
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You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.
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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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Until things are brighter. I’m the man in black.
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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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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 is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.
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I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.
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When I’m gone I’ll be remembered as the workin’ man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.
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Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.
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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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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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