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Johnny Cash est un chanteur, acteur, guitariste et auteur-compositeur de musique country américain. Il a également pratiqué les styles rock 'n' roll, rockabilly, blues, folk ou encore gospel.

Johnny Cash est connu pour sa voix caractéristique de baryton et ses basses profondes. Son comportement et ses vêtements sombres lui ont valu le surnom de Man In Black .

Une grande partie de la musique de Johnny Cash, en particulier celle de sa fin de carrière, fait écho aux thèmes de la douleur, de l'affliction morale et de la rédemption, comme ses chansons I Walk the Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Ring of Fire, Get Rhythm et Man in Black. Il a également enregistré des chansons humoristiques, telles que One Piece at a Time et A Boy Named Sue, un duo avec sa future épouse June Carter intitulé Jackson, ainsi que des train songs dont Hey Porter et Rock Island Line.

Avec 90 millions d'albums vendus en près de cinquante ans de carrière, il est considéré comme une figure majeure de la musique américaine du XXe siècle. Sa discographie officielle comprend 55 albums studio et 6 albums live. Par ailleurs, il existe 84 compilations de ses enregistrements.

Il est aussi connu pour son engagement politique et son action en faveur des détenus, s'étant produit dans des prisons.

Le magazine Rolling Stone l'a classé 21e meilleur chanteur de tous les temps. Il est aussi le mari de la célèbre chanteuse country June Carter. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. février 1932 – 12. septembre 2003
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Johnny Cash: Citations en anglais

“Cash: I went into a coma and I was there for 12 days. They all thought I was dying and they couldn't diagnose what was wrong with me. They finally came up with a diagnosis of Shy-Drager syndrome. It was few months later they realized I didn't have that so it was Parkinson's. And then it was not that. Then finally it was autonomic neuropathy. … And I'm pretty well resolved to the fact that that's what it is. And it's a slow process of the nerve endings.
King: No cure?
Cash: No, I don't think so. But that's all right. There's no cure for life either.”

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CNN interview (2002)

“Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers.
One hundred million angels singin'.
Multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum.
Voices callin', voices cryin'.
Some are born an' some are dyin.”

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It's Alpha and Omega's Kingdom come.
Song lyrics, American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002), The Man Comes Around

“Hey, get rhythm when you get the blues.
Hey, get rhythm when you get the blues.
Yes a jumpy rhythm makes you feel so fine.
It'll shake all the trouble from your worried mind.
Get rhythm when you get the blues.”

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Get Rhythm
Song lyrics, Greatest! (1959)

“At my door the leaves are falling;
A cold wild wind has come.
Sweethearts walk by together;
And I still miss someone.”

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I Still Miss Someone, written by Johnny Cash and Roy Cash
Song lyrics, The Fabulous Johnny Cash (1958)

“I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.”

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Explo 72

“Hey porter! Hey porter!
Would you tell me the time?
How much longer will it be till we cross that Mason Dixon Line?
At daylight would ya tell that engineer to slow it down?
Or better still, just stop the train,
Cause I wanna look around.”

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Hey, Porter
Song lyrics, Now Here's Johnny Cash (1961)

“I hear the train a comin,
It's rollin' round the bend.
An' I ain't seen the sunshine'
Since I don't know when.
I'm stuck in Folsom prison,
And time keeps draggin' on.
But that train keeps a rollin'
On down to San Antone.”

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Folsom Prison Blues
Song lyrics, Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)

“People say, Well, he wore that body out. Well, maybe I did. But it was to a good purpose. They should be thankful that I wore it out to the purpose I wore it out and that was writing and recording and touring and doing concerts. Everywhere I could possibly do them that I thought I might enjoy them. I thought people might enjoy me.”

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CNN interview (2002)

“Now I taught the weeping willow how to cry,
And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.
And the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood you Big River.
Then I'm gonna sit right here until I die.”

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Big River
Song lyrics, Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous (1958)

“There's a man goin' 'round takin' names.
An' he decides who to free and who to blame.
Everybody won't be treated all the same.
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down.
When the man comes around.”

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Song lyrics, American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002), The Man Comes Around

“The line "because you're mine, I walk the line." It kept coming to me, you know? But I was — I was … young and not been married too long. Yes, it kept coming to me. Because you're mine, I walk the line. And then the words just naturally flowed. It was an easy song to write.”

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CNN interview (2002)

“The Man Comes Around" is a song that I wrote, it's my song of the apocalypse, and I got the idea from a dream that I had — I dreamed I saw Queen Elizabeth. I dreamed I went in to Buckingham Palace, and there she sat on the floor. And she looked up at me and said, "Johnny Cash, you're like a thorn tree in a whirlwind." And I woke up, of course, and I thought, what could a dream like this mean? Thorn tree in a whirlwind? Well, I forgot about it for two or three years, but it kept haunting me, this dream. I kept thinking about it, how vivid it was, and then I thought, Maybe it's biblical. So I found it. Something about whirlwinds and thorn trees in the Bible. So from that, my song started and… "The Man Comes Around.”

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The song turned out to be "The Man Comes Around."
CNN interview (2002)

“I do my best to hide this low-down feelin'.
I try to make believe there's nothing wrong.
But they're always askin me about you, darlin
And it hurts me so to tell 'em that you're gone.
If they ask me I guess I'd be denyin' that I've been unhappy all alone.
But if they heard my heart, they'd hear it cryin'
Where's my darling, when's she comin home?”

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So Doggone Lonesome
Song lyrics, Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)

“Just around the corner there's heartache
Down the street that losers use.
If you can wade in through the teardrops,
You'll find me at the Home of the Blues.”

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Home of the Blues, written by Johnny Cash, Douglas L. McAlphin, and Glenn Douglas Tubb
Song lyrics, Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous (1958)

“A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm;
A boy filled with wanderlust who really meant no harm.
He changed his clothes and shined his boots;
And combed his dark hair down.
And his mother cried as he walked out.Don't take your guns to town son;
Leave your guns at home Bill.
Don't take your guns to town.”

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Don't Take Your Guns to Town
Song lyrics, The Fabulous Johnny Cash (1958)

“I lie awake at night to wait 'til you come in.
You stay a little while and then you're gone again.
Every question that I ask, I get a lie, lie, lie.
For every lie you tell, you're gonna cry, cry, cry!”

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Cry! Cry! Cry!
Song lyrics, Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)

“The hairs on your arm will stand up.
At the terror in each sip and in each sup.
Will you partake of that last offered cup,
Or disappear into the potter's ground.
When the man comes around.”

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Song lyrics, American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002), The Man Comes Around

“So we raise her up every morning
And we bring her down slow 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
That Ragged Old Flag.”

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Ragged Old Flag
Song lyrics, Ragged Old Flag (1974)

“The line "because you're mine, I walk the line."”

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It kept coming to me, you know? But I was — I was … young and not been married too long. Yes, it kept coming to me. Because you're mine, I walk the line. And then the words just naturally flowed. It was an easy song to write.
CNN interview (2002)

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