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It's good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.

As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.

Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

If you have political convictions ... keep 'em to yourself

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

We're all in this together if we're in it at all.

I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue.

We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.

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.

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

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

Get rhythm when you get the blues.

The gospel of Christ must always be an open door with a welcome sign for all.

Everything I have and everything I do is now given completely to Jesus Christ.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.

San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate ... I choose love.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.

However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.

Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.

I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I'm 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable faith.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable ... but most of all, it's having those loved ones.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love

You know, the man's best friend is his dog ... if he's got nothing else.

He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.

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.

You're so heavenly minded, you're no earthly good.

Some gal would giggle and I'd get red, and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.

Let me tell you, Mr. teacher when you say you'll make me right, in five hundred years of fighting not one Indian turned white

When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.

I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line.

It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks

When you sing, you pray twice.

Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on.

Could it be the girls and boys are trying to be heard above your noise?

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.

A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

It's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.

I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.

Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.

I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.

Death and hell are never full, and neither are men's eyes.

All music comes from God.

Life is rough so you gotta be tough.

I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

This morning, with her, having coffee

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.

When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

He went up to heaven, located his dog. Not only that, but he rejoined his arm.

What have I become, my sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away, in the end.

Understand your man, meditate on it.

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

I came to believe in a power much higher than I

Because you're mine, I walk the line.

The beast in me
Is caged by frail and fragile bars.

I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.

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

I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain.

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

Burn my Flag and I will shoot you ... but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

Hardin wouldn't run.

My arms are too short to box with God.

If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.

Come on boys, you must listen unto me, lay off the whiskey and let that cocaine be.

After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way."

A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.

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.

When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, 'You mean besides George Jones?'

When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

Life is
the way God has given it to me was just a platter
a golden platter of life laid out there for me. Its been beautiful.

When I was arrested I was dressed in black

I'm thrilled to death with life.

God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.