When I think about country music, I think about America.
JOHNNY CASHHappiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable but most of all, it’s having those loved ones.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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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 found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.
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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.
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There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I’m the biggest sinner of them all.
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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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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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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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Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.
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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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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
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Life and love go on, let the music play.
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When God forgave me, I figured I’d better do it too.
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All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren’t better. I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse.
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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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My arms are too short to box with God.
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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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Until things are brighter. I’m the man in black.
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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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Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
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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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All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.
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Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
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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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Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.
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