I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.
Johnny CashWell, I take great comfort in the words of the apostle Paul who said, โWhat I will to do, that I do not practice. But what I hate, that I do.โ And he said, โIt is no longer I who do it, but the sin that dwells within me. But who,โ he asks, โwill deliver me from this body of death?โ And he answers for himself and for me, โThrough Jesus Christ the Lord.'
Johnny CashHappiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.
Johnny CashSam [Phillips] wanted I Walk The Line up - you know, up-tempo. And I put paper in the strings of my guitar to get that (vocalizing) sound, and with the bass and the lead guitar, there it was. Bare and stark, that song was when it was released. And I heard it on the radio and I really didn't like it, and I called Sam Phillips and asked him please not to send out any more records of that song.
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