Johnny Cash Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash Famous Quotes & Sayings
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He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.
Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.
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!
I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue.
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.
It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.
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.
My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.
However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.
I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I'm 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable faith.
Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable ... but most of all, it's having those loved ones.
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
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.
Add one stolen night of bliss
One girl, one boy, some grief,
some joy Memories are made of this.
Some gal would giggle and I'd get red, and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.
Let me tell you, Mr. teacher when you say you'll make me right, in five hundred years of fighting not one Indian turned white
When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.
Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on.
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
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.
A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.
I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.
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.
I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
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.
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.
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.
I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.
I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain.
After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way."
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.