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Johnny Cash Biography

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honor of multiple inductions in the Country Music, Rock and Roll, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame.

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The requests started coming in from other prisoners all over the United States. And then the word got around. So I always wanted to record that, you know, to record a show because of the reaction I got. It was far and above anything I had ever had in my life, the complete explosion of noise and reaction that they gave me with every song. So then I came back the next year and played the prison again, the New Year's Day show, came back again a third year and did the show.

Complete, New Year, Noise, Prisoners, Song, Years

I think in my world of religion, you're called to preach or you don't preach. Called by God to preach. I never been ordained by God to preach the gospel. I have a calling, it's called to perform and sing.

Calling, Gospel, Think, Thinking, World

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

Failure, Mistake, Stepping, Stone, Stones, Use

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

Believe, Don'T Give Up, Give, Giving Up

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

Conviction, Convictions, Ems, Keep, Political

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.

Bars, Criminal, Criminals, Jail, Thinking

I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.

Building, Drug, Everything, Kingdom, Soul, World

I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums.

Albums, Bob, Christian, Work

The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play.

Life And Love, Music, Oblivion, Old Wounds, Past, Render

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

Mistake, Mistakes, Pain, Saying, Way

I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on.

Black, Color, Denim, Everything, Town

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

Know, Tide, Tides, Trying, Turn, Turns

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.

Deep, Front, Real, Right, Sides, Spiritual

I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force.

Air, Home, Joined, Sick

I came to believe in a power much higher than I

Believe, Came, Higher, Power

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

Exactly, Gonna, Might, Say, Say Anything, Wells

What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?

Able, Records, Rick, Rubin, Said

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

Dog, Friend, Knows, Men, Nothing

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

Black, Brighter, Man, Men, Things

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.

Field, Like, People, Think, Thinking, Writing

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