Johnny Cash quotes

Born
February 26, 1932 Kingsland, Arkansas.

Died
September 12, 2003.

Occupation
Songwriter, singer, musician.

Johnny Cash was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author.

 

God’s the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That’s solely in the hands of God.
– Johnny Cash

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
– Johnny Cash

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.
– Johnny Cash

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.
– Johnny Cash

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.
– Johnny Cash

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.
– Johnny Cash

I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.
– 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

For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
– Johnny Cash

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.
– Johnny Cash

I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
– Johnny Cash

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.
– Johnny Cash

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.
– Johnny Cash

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.
– Johnny Cash

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.
– Johnny Cash

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.
– Johnny Cash

I wear black because I’m comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it’s hot I’m comfortable in light blue.
– Johnny Cash

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.
– Johnny Cash

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
– 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

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.
– Johnny Cash