A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
JOHNNY CASHLife is – the way God has given it to me was just a platter – a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It’s been beautiful.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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It’s good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people.
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Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.
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Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.
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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
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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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You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.
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When you sing, you pray twice.
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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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As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.
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Life and love go on, let the music play.
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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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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.
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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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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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