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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
Johnny Cash
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Johnny Cash
Age: 71 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 26
Died: 2003
Died: September 12
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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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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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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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I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated.
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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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Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me and sit in my living room with a guitar and two microphones and just sing to your heart's content everything you ever wanted to record. I said, that sounds good to me. So I did that. And day after day, three weeks, I sang for him.
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Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.
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[Sam Phillips] laughed at me. I just didn't like the way I Walk The Line sounded to me. I didn't know I sounded that way. And I didn't like it. I don't know. But he said let's give it a chance, and it was just a few days until - that's all it took to take off.
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I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force.
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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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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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Could it be the girls and boys are trying to be heard above your noise?
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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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I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.
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I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.
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What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?
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I've always explored various areas of society.
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I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line.
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