Johnny Cash Quotes

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You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up... and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

Johnny Cash
Sometimes I'll have a breakfast sandwich, which is two fried eggs with crisp bacon on cinnamon toast. It's good, it really is. You want one?

Johnny Cash
I can work in that garden all morning and I'm ready to come in here and make the show in the afternoon.

Johnny Cash
I never did drink badly; a beer now and then, but I don't like it. It burns up my energy, makes me sleepy.

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It was a tough fight, and nobody else can whip it. It's only been about 18 months ago that I quit pills. Eighteen months ago, I was walking death. I used to take up to 100 pills a day. I don't know why in the world they didn't kill me. Any doctor would tell you it would. I would play one against the other — pep pills to pep me up, tranquilizers to calm me down.

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Oh but I love that rain. You know: back in that shack. It came on to rain. I stripped down to my shorts and just lay on the rock and let it come down on me like bricks.

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I go to Dillards or Wal-Mart with June and just hang out with her. So long as she's shopping, so long as she's moving, I follow. I'm a great shopper. I buy shirts and records. I've got too many shirts already, most of them black.

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I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Living in the hopeless hungry side of town.

Johnny Cash
To tell you the truth, I don't think about death at all. What's to think about? I enjoy my life now.

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People say, Well, he wore that body out. Well, maybe I did. But it was to a good purpose. They should be thankful that I wore it out to the purpose I wore it out and that was writing and recording and touring and doing concerts. Everywhere I could possibly do them that I thought I might enjoy them. I thought people might enjoy me.

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Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood,
and you're the one I need.

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I took the easy way, and to an extent I regret that. Still, though, the way we did it was honest. We played it and sang it the way we felt it, and there's a lot to be said for that.

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I generally get an idea for a song every time I'm fishin' or out in the woods. That's generally when songs come to me. I write 'em down after I come home.

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I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

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There's a man going 'round taking names / And he decides who to free and who to blame / Everybody won't be treated all the same / There'll be a golden ladder reaching down / When the Man comes around.

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I'd sing more about more of this land, but all God's children aren't free.

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I can sing songs of death. I've seen a lot of it. But I'm obsessed with life.

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There is that beast there in me, and I got to keep him caged, or he'll eat me alive.

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