[Asked about his songwriting achievements, he said he was] a big fan of the Golden Age of Country Music, ... [It was] when artists had an identity bigger than any of their songs. |
[June Carter Cash,] Keep on the Sunny Side -- Her Life in Music ... The Legend |
[You can tell they're all having fun, as Johnny Cash sings that he'll live forever, coming back like a single drop of rain again and again. Waylon Jennings joins in with more of such verse, all of it in the vein of some down-home Longfellow.] With the four of us, we had 135 years on the road, ... I almost did live forever. |
After about three lessons the voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way." |
American III: Solitary Man, |
and then come back with a song I can sell. |
Because you're mine/ I walk the line. |
Bird on a Wire |
For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide. |
Hits I Missed... And One I Didn't. |
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. |
I grew up in the '40s and I heard all these great speeches, like Winston Churchill. His most famous, or infamous commencement exercise speech was one that consisted of seven words. He stood before this graduating class and said: "Never, never, never, never give up." |
I hurt myself today to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain the only thing that's real |
I Know Why Jesus Saved Me. |
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. |