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"When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!"
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"He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that."
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"Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong."
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"I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage."
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"I said all along I would not sell my story. I don't think it would be right."
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"To do a great right do a little wrong."
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"With 20 top-10 finishes, I feel we're on the right path."
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"I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me."
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"Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger."
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"I was right for the role. It's as simple as that."
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"The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right."
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"My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father."
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"That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station."
Dream
"You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way."
Limitation
"Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money."
Money
"When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!"
Right
"Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight."
People
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."
Time
"It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think."
Talent
"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."
Sight
"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."
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