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"I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called "Because You're Mine." And he said, "I Walk The Line" is a better title, so I changed it to "I Walk The Line.""
"He went up to heaven, located his dog. Not only that, but he rejoined his arm."
"One day, I just decided I'm ready to go. So I went down with my guitar and sat on the front steps of Sam Phillips recording studio."
"Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field."
"Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money."
"I came to believe in a power much higher than I"
"When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood."
"That was American Recordings. I said, I like the name, maybe it'd be OK. So I said, I'd like to meet the guy [Rick Rubin ].I'd like for him to tell me what he can do with me that they're not doing now."
"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."
"God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God."
"San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell."
"So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag 'cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag."
"I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere."
"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."
"[My mother] called [my voice] the gift."
"He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man."
"My father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost it in the Depression. So he worked as a woodman and cut pulpwood for the paper mills, rode the rails in boxcars going from one harvest to another to try to make a little money picking fruit or vegetables."
"When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry."
"I Walk The Line was my third record."
"Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting."