Top 217 Quotes & Sayings by Johnny Cash
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American singer Johnny Cash.
Last updated on September 10, 2024.
I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.
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.
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.
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.
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.
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.
God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.
I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
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.
I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue.
You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
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.
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
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!
God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.
When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
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.
People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.
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.
I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.
Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American
A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read
There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.
There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.
We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.
I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.
The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people
We're all in this together if we're in it at all.
The more I learn, the more excited I get.
It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.
Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.
I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.
Life and love go on, let the music play.
You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.
Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.
All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren't better ...I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse.
As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.
Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.
Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.
You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up. I don't give - and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.
I found out that there
weren't too many limitations,
if I did it my way.
I'm not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That's what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I've been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.
Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.
There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.
The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.
I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.
The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal.
Life and love go on, let the music play.
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.
If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.
When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.
No matter how much you've sinned, no matter how much you've stumbled, no matter how much you fall, no matter how far you've got from God, don't give up. You can still be redeemed. As someone says, keep the faith.
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