Johnny Cash Quotes
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Johnny Cash Quotes & Sayings
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As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.
— Johnny Cash
Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.
— Johnny Cash
He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.
— Johnny Cash
I could enjoy the simple life with a small living quarters, a scratched album of Johnny Cash and a Box of Twinkies
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
— Iris Dement
Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.
— Johnny Cash
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!
— Johnny Cash
God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done.
— Lewis Grizzard
God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.
— Johnny Cash
Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.
— Rosanne Cash
Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.
— Johnny Cash
I don't like it, but I guess things happen that way.
— Johnny Cash
Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.
— Johnny Cash
It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.
— Johnny Cash
Get rhythm when you get the blues.
— Johnny Cash
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.
— Johnny Cash
San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell.
— Johnny Cash
All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate ... I choose love.
— Johnny Cash
I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
— Samantha Barks
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.
— Johnny Cash
I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.
— Johnny Cash
However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.
— Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
— Kris Kristofferson
I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.
— Robert Hilburn
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.
— Johnny Cash
God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.
— Johnny Cash
I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
— Johnny Cash
Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.
— Johnny Cash
Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.
— Johnny Cash
The beast in me
Is caged by frail and fragile bars. — Johnny Cash
Is caged by frail and fragile bars. — Johnny Cash
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.
— Johnny Cash
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
— Johnny Cash
I love most 70's song writers, not so much outlaw, but really those 70's guys. I'm a big fan of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, those guys.
— Bryan Hayes
Burn my Flag and I will shoot you ... but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American
— Johnny Cash
Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song?
— Marty Stuart
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.
— Johnny Cash
I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain.
— Johnny Cash
Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.
— Brian Setzer
Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.
— Johnny Cash
I came to believe in a power much higher than I
— Johnny Cash
For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.
— Johnny Cash
I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.
— Johnny Cash
A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
— Johnny Cash
Understand your man, meditate on it.
— Johnny Cash
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.
— Johnny Cash
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
— Johnny Cash
Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable ... but most of all, it's having those loved ones.
— Johnny Cash
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.
— Johnny Cash
When you sing, you pray twice.
— Johnny Cash
When I was arrested I was dressed in black
— Johnny Cash
When I think about country music, I think about America.
— Johnny Cash
I'm thrilled to death with life.
— Johnny Cash
I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
— Waylon Jennings
I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
— Johnny Cash
This morning, with her, having coffee
— Johnny Cash
Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.
— Merle Haggard
Life is
the way God has given it to me was just a platter
a golden platter of life laid out there for me. Its been beautiful. — Johnny Cash
the way God has given it to me was just a platter
a golden platter of life laid out there for me. Its been beautiful. — Johnny Cash
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
— Johnny Cash
When I started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night.
— Peter Hook
All music comes from God.
— Johnny Cash
Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
— Johnny Cash
Hardin wouldn't run.
— Johnny Cash
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
— Johnny Cash
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.
— Johnny Cash
My arms are too short to box with God.
— Johnny Cash
If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.
— Johnny Cash
Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.
— Johnny Cash
Because you're mine, I walk the line.
— Johnny Cash
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."
— Johnny Cash
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.
— Johnny Cash
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.
— Johnny Cash
When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, 'You mean besides George Jones?'
— Johnny Cash
When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.
— Johnny Cash
It depends on how Johnny's feeling ... If we go back on the road, we will go together. I'll go where he goes, and he'll go where I go.
— June Carter Cash
Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.
— Johnny Cash