I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
JOHNNY CASHWhen 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.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.
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Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.
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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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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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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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The ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.
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You’re so heavenly minded, you’re no earthly good.
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A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
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Life is rough so 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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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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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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When you sing, you pray twice.
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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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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
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