Johnny Cash Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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.”
-- Johnny CashSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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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“People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not.I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.”
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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.”
-- Johnny CashSource : "The Great Lost Performance". Live album by Johnny Cash, July 24, 2007.
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“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.”
-- Johnny CashSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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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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“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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“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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“it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people”
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“I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.”
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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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“There's a man going 'round taking names / And he decides who to free and who to blame / Everybody won't be treated all the same / There'll be a golden ladder reaching down / When the Man comes around.”
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“That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.”
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“I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.”
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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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“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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“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
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“It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.”
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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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“My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.”
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“Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.”
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“God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.”
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“God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.”
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“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 CashSource : "Johnny Cash: 'I was evil. I really was' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Philip Norman, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.
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“The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play.”
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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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“Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.”
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“What have I become, my sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away, in the end.”
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“You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.”
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“The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.”
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