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Johnny Cash
Age: 71 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 26
Died: 2003
Died: September 12
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John R. Cash
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Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need
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I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called Because You're Mine. And he said, I Walk The Line is a better title, so I changed it to I Walk The Line.
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I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue.
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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
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Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.
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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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[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 used to sing Bill Monroe songs. And I'd sing Dennis Day songs like songs that he sang on the Jack Benny show.
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Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.
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I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.
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I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line.
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Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, Cry Cry Cry, went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record.
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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 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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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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If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself
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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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It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks
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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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Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy Memories are made of this.
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