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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.
Johnny Cash
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Johnny Cash
Age: 71 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 26
Died: 2003
Died: September 12
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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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Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
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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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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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My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.
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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 Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.
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Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.
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Get rhythm when you get the blues.
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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.
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Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.
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Could it be the girls and boys are trying to be heard above your noise?
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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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You know, the man's best friend is his dog... if he's got nothing else.
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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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For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.
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I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.
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