Top 100 Quotes About Johnny Cash
#1. The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.
Johnny Cash
#2. It's good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.
Johnny Cash
#3. A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
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#4. He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.
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#5. 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.
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#6. So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young.
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#7. 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.
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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
#10. Could it be the girls and boys are trying to be heard above your noise?
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#11. Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.
Merle Haggard
#12. 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.
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#13. So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag 'cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag.
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#15. It takes a long time to find your own voice. Along the way, you imitate all the things that influence you - in my case Johnny Cash, Bowie, John Lydon.
Dave Gahan
#16. 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.
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#17. What have I become, my sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away, in the end.
Johnny Cash
#18. The only really frightening thing about Cinnamon Hill belongs in the realm of the living and serves to remind me that some of them-just a few of them, a tiny minority-are much more dangerous than all the dead put together.
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#19. I want a love like Johnny and June
Rings of fire burnin' with you
I wanna walk the line, walk the line
Til' the end of time
I wanna love, love ya that much
Cash it on it give it all up
And baby when your gone I wanna go too
Like Johnny and June
Heidi Newfield
#20. 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.
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#22. 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!
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#23. It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks
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#24. I came to believe in a power much higher than I
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#25. Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.
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#26. God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.
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#28. Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
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#29. It's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people
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#30. When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.
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#31. I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.
Kid Rock
#32. 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
#33. When Johnny Cash died, ... I picked up my guitar and got the idea that Bob Dylan was the last man standing, the last of the real gods. It was for Dylan, Cash, Lennon, Elvis that's what I was thinking.
Jon Bon Jovi
#34. You're so heavenly minded, you're no earthly good.
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#35. I don't have Paul's calling - I'm not out there being all things to all men to win them for Christ - but sometimes I can be a signpost. Sometimes I can sow a seed. And post-hole diggers and seed sowers are mighty important in the building of the Kingdom.
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#36. However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.
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#37. Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable ... but most of all, it's having those loved ones.
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#38. Burn my Flag and I will shoot you ... but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American
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#39. There's three different kinds of Christian," said Cash. "There's preaching Christians, church-playing Christians, and then there's practicing Christian. I'm trying very hard to be a practicing Christian.
Steve Turner
#40. 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
#41. 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.
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#42. I don't like it, but I guess things happen that way.
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#43. I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him.
June Carter Cash
#44. As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.
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#45. 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.
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#46. You might be a redneck if you have a picture of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, or Elvis over your fireplace.
Jeff Foxworthy
#47. Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.
John Boehner
#48. When I was arrested I was dressed in black
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#49. 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.
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#50. I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family.
George Jones
#51. 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.
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#52. When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.
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#54. Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
G-Eazy
#55. 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.
Johnny Cash
#56. 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
#57. He [Johnny Cash] always wanted to use his music to lift other people up, to say no matter how much trouble, there's hope. That was always his message in his songs. That's why he and [Bob] Dylan bonded so much, because they were both trying to do something meaningful.
Robert Hilburn
#58. I remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend? E veryone I know goes away in the end You could have it all My empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt.
Johnny Cash
#59. He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.
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#60. Everything I have and everything I do is now given completely to Jesus Christ.
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#61. But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.
Noah Taylor
#62. 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.
Johnny Cash
#64. A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.
Chris Cornell
#65. I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
Samantha Barks
#66. I'm a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and also Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, and Biz Markie.
Big Smo
#67. Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need
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#68. I've always been an outsider. When I did magic, I was the only kid. When I worked with Johnny Cash, I was completely out of place in Nashville. And when I started Def Jam, I was the only white guy in the hip-hop world.
Rick Rubin
#69. Death and hell are never full, and neither are men's eyes.
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#70. 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
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#71. He went up to heaven, located his dog. Not only that, but he rejoined his arm.
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#72. 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.
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#73. There are two kinds of people, there's those who like Johnny Cash, and those that will.
Marty Stuart
#74. Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.
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#75. 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.
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#76. I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line.
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#77. I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.
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#78. Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.
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#79. There's a man going 'round taking names / And he decides who to free and who to blame / Everybody won't be treated all the same / There'll be a golden ladder reaching down / When the Man comes around.
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#80. My mom was a huge Adam and the Ants fan. My granddad listened to a lot of Motown and Elvis and Johnny Cash. So I was kind of well-rounded.
Hayley Williams
#81. 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
#82. Throughout the '50s, tons of unknown locals came through Sun to record their demos. Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis all made their first recordings at the former Memphis Recording Service.
Shawn Amos
#83. And I'd be dead , but by God's grace
Drive on, don't mean nothin'
My children love me, but they don't understand
And I got a woman who knows her man
Drive on, don't mean nothin', drive on
Johnny Cash
#84. All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate ... I choose love.
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#85. I took the easy way, and to an extent I regret that. Still, though, the way we did it was honest. We played it and sang it the way we felt it, and there's a lot to be said for that.
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#86. 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.
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#87. The gospel of Christ must always be an open door with a welcome sign for all.
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#88. 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.
Johnny Cash
#89. I've been really happy just traveling and being Mrs. Johnny Cash all these years. But I'm also really happy and surprised that someone wanted me to make another album, and I'm real proud of what I've done.
June Carter Cash
#90. I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.
Adele
#91. I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.
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#92. Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the
downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln
with a wild side. He represented the best of America.
Kris Kristofferson
#94. 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.
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#95. I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.
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#96. San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell.
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#97. 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.
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#98. Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.
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#99. Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.
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#100. Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.
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