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.
JOHNNY CASHWhen I’m gone I’ll be remembered as the workin’ man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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We’ll all be equal under the grass, and God’s got a heaven for country trash.
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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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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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Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable but most of all, it’s having those loved ones.
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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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There’s a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there’s a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.
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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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I came to believe in a power much higher than I.
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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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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
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You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.
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Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.
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I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my 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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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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