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.
JOHNNY CASHI 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.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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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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I’m not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I’m thrilled to death with life.
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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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When I think about country music, I think about America.
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You’ve got to know your limitations. I don’t know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.
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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
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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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Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.
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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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All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.
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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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For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
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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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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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If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.
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