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“I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.”

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Robert Hilburn

Robert Hilburn is a renowned music critic, born on September 25, 1939. He has had a career spanning over fifty years in the field of music criticism, known for his in-depth analysis and insightful perspectives. more

“I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition and in a lot of cases people need alcohol or drugs to create poetry and poetic pose that can take you so far out there where you are still able to recognize yourself and then to bring you back home where you're not the same person you were when you left.”

People Needs Humans Persons Stills Home Able Left Stuff Dark Cases Conditions Drug Scary Alcohol Shy Poetic Where You Are Human Condition Back Home Scary Stuff

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“I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.”

Natural Path Meditation Understood

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“I'm a terrible Christian and meditating is very hard for me, and I do it. I do it badly, like I do a lot of things. I believe in doing things badly.”

Believe Hard Christian I Believe Terrible I Believe In Meditating

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“I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it.”

Ifs Believe Heart Spirit I Believe Grows Listening I Believe In Kicks

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“The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.”

Different

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“If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.”

Ifs Audience Huge Bigger

Author:Anne Lamott

“He [Johnny Cash] always wanted to use his music to lift other people up, to say no matter how much trouble, there's hope. That was always his message in his songs. That's why he and [Bob] Dylan bonded so much, because they were both trying to do something meaningful.”

People Trying Matter Use Wanted Song Trouble Messages Meaningful Lifts Cash Bob Dylan

Author:Robert Hilburn

“My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.”

Writing Pages Seven Eight Paragraph

Author:Anne Lamott

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