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More than two dozen people pay tribute to Johnny Cash in the liner notes of his new release, "The Essential Johnny Cash." Here is a sampling:
Johnny Cash transcends all musical boundaries, and is one of the original outlaws.
-- Willie Nelson
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
-- Kris Kristofferson
Locusts and honey ... not since John The Baptist has there been a voice like that crying in the wilderness. ... Every man knows he is a sissy compared to Johnny Cash.
-- Bono
John Cash is an American original, uncompromised in his craft and incomparable in its execution. He makes you feel that he is playing solely to reach the best part of your spirit.
-- John Mellencamp
When Johnny Cash comes on the radio, no one changes the station.
-- Tom Waits
His ability to take a song and make it his own is just uncanny. I heard him sing my song "I Won't Back Down," and I just thought, God, he must have written that, because it never rang so true to me as when I heard him sing it.
-- Tom Petty
There's nobody remotely like him.
-- Elvis Costello
God is not making any more.
-- Nick Lowe
Johnny Cash is the Mount Rushmore of music.
-- Raul Malo
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