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Get rhythm when you get the blues.

Johnny Cash

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Johnny Cash
Age: 71 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 26
Died: 2003
Died: September 12
Actor
Autobiographer
Composer
Film Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Kingsland
Arkansas
The Man in Black
John R. Cash
J. R. Cash
Blues
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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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Life and love go on, let the music play.
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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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I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.
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All music comes from God.
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So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag 'cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag.
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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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Understand your man, meditate on it.
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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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When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.
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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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The more I learn, the more excited I get.
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I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
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Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.
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I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about.
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[My mother] made the money to send me.
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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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We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.
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Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.
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I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.
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