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.
JOHNNY CASHThe ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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I came to believe in a power much higher than I.
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Until things are brighter. I’m the man in black.
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Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.
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Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.
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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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The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.
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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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It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.
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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 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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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
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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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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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All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.
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For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
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