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Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.

Johnny Cash

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Johnny Cash
Age: 71 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 26
Died: 2003
Died: September 12
Actor
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Film Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Kingsland
Arkansas
The Man in Black
John R. Cash
J. R. Cash
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He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.
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Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.
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I Walk The Line was my third record.
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They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.
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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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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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I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force.
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I came to believe in a power much higher than I
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I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.
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I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line.
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Oh, I'd love to wear a rainbow everyday, And tell the world that everything's okay, But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back, Till 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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The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.
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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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I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.
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That was American Recordings. I said, I like the name, maybe it'd be OK. So I said, I'd like to meet the guy [Rick Rubin ].I'd like for him to tell me what he can do with me that they're not doing now.
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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 more I learn, the more excited I get.
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The first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song...I thought that was the most wonderful, amazing thing...That you could take this piece of wax and music would come out of that box. From that day on, I wanted to sing on the radio.
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When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry.
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