Top 217 Quotes & Sayings by Johnny Cash - Page 2

You're so heavenly minded, you're no earthly good.

Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.

A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.

Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy Memories are made of this.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me in spite of everything, in spite of myself. She has saved my life more than once. She's always been there with her love, and it has certainly made me forget the pain for a long time, many times. When it gets dark and everybody's gone home and the lights are turned off, it's just me and her.

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line.

When you sing, you pray twice.

Oh, I'd love to wear a rainbow everyday, And tell the world that everything's okay, But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back, Till things are brighter, I'm the Man in Black.

Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love

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.

The gospel of Christ must always be an open door with a welcome sign for all.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

Get rhythm when you get the blues.

It's good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.

I don't like it, but I guess things happen that way.

Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.

Jesus will not fail me, I shall not be moved.

If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.

Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.

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.

It makes me so mad that some people underestimate the wisdom and energy of young people. All because they don't look the way older folks think they should look. I'm working on a song about it. Maybe some of those closed minded people will realize long hair and tattoos don't mean they should be ignored. Close minded people are part of what's wrong with this world.

When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.

God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.

Death and hell are never full, and neither are men's eyes.

Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.

I recently found myself going through a period of uncertainty about my future as a performer, my status as a personality, the believability of my Christian witness and the knowledge of God's will in my life. I felt a force bigger than myself saying, 'Lay back. Take it easy. Study hard. Read your bible. Think, write and keep your mouth shut for awhile.'

When I think about country music, I think about America.

I came to believe in a power much higher than I

The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.

I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn't be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own.

I keep my eyes wide open all the time.

Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me and sit in my living room with a guitar and two microphones and just sing to your heart's content everything you ever wanted to record. I said, that sounds good to me. So I did that. And day after day, three weeks, I sang for him.

Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.

Because you're mine, I walk the line.

I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.

People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones.

I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about.

When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.

The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don't go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.

I knew Bob Dylan was searching for the truth and had been for years. And anyone who Really wants the truth ends up at Jesus

If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself

I'm thrilled to death with life.

When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.

Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkly clothes, and cowboy boots. I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see if I could get by with it. I did and I've worn black clothes ever since.

Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.

Everything I have and everything I do is now given completely to Jesus Christ.

My arms are too short to box with God.

I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas.

I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.

Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

When I was arrested I was dressed in black