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„Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, I got on my knees and told her that I was going to marry her some day. We were both married to someone else at the time. ‘Ring Of Fire’—June and Merle Kilgore wrote that song for me-that’s the way our love affair was. We fell madly in love and we worked together all the time, toured together all the time, and when the tour was over we both had to go home to other people. It hurt.“

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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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„This morning, with her, having coffee“

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„Listen to the words long written down,
When the man comes around.“

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Song lyrics, American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002), The Man Comes Around
Kontext: Whoever is unjust, let him be unjust still.
Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still.
Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still.
Listen to the words long written down,
When the man comes around.

„My arms are too short to box with God.“

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„There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.“

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

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

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Quelle: The Very Best of Johnny Cash

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

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

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„I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.“

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Man in Black · First public performance (17 February 1971) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t51MHUENlAQ
Song lyrics, Man in Black (1971)
Quelle: The Essential Johnny Cash

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

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CNN interview (2002)
Kontext: I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life. Life is — the way God has given it to me was just a platter — a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.

„Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkly clothes, and cowboy boots. I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see if I could get by with it. I did and I've worn black clothes ever since.“

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„I keep a close watch on this heart of mine;
I keep my eyes wide open all the time.
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds.
Because you're mine, I walk the line.“

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I Walk the Line
Song lyrics, Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)

„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.“

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„There's always rhythm going in my mind. … I'm either singing them — June will tell you, I'm either singing them, or I have got the beat going from one, or I'm writing one.“