"Get rhythm when you get the blues."
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"I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life."
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"The more I learn, the more excited I get."
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"My arms are too short to box with God."
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"Because you're mine, I walk the line."
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"Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring."
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"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."
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"When you sing, you pray twice."
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"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."
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"I recently found myself going through a period of uncertainty about my future as a performer, my status as a personality, the believability of my Christian witness and the knowledge of God's will in my life. I felt a force bigger than myself saying, 'Lay back. Take it easy. Study hard. Read your bible. Think, write and keep your mouth shut for awhile.'"
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"I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight."
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"I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it."
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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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"It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough."
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"When I think about country music, I think about America."
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"I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian."
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"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."
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"I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas."
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"Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me and sit in my living room with a guitar and two microphones and just sing to your heart's content everything you ever wanted to record. I said, that sounds good to me. So I did that. And day after day, three weeks, I sang for him."
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"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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