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.
JOHNNY CASHFor you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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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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When I’m gone I’ll be remembered as the workin’ man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.
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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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I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.
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Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.
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I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.
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Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.
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A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.
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For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
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You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.
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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
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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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Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.
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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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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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