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Sam Philip's Advice to Johnny Cash and to All Writers
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March 23, 2009 - gsmalter
In the bio-pic 'Walk the Line', we see young Johnny Cash singing a
gospel song to record producer Sam Philips. Sam stops him and says:
"I don't believe what you're singing. But if you were hit by a
truck and were lying out there in the gutter dying and you had time to
sing one song. One song people would remember before you're were dirt.
One song that would let people know about how you felt about your time
on earth. One song that would sum you up. Something real. Something you
felt. What would that one song be?"
Johnny thinks, then starts singing a song he wrote, "Folsom Prison Blues".
I hear lots of writers and directors saying, "I got this one idea, and
than there's another idea, and I might do this other idea......." I
always reply, "Do your last book. Your last movie. Your one ultimate
story." If you can't raise the money yet, to make it into a movie, do
it as a book. It just takes a PC and time.
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