Quotes by Johnny Cash

About Johnny Cash:

J.R. was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honor of multiple inductions in the Country Music, Rock and Roll and Gospel Music Halls of Fame.
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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.

Johnny Cash

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.

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

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

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

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.

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 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

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

Johnny Cash

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

Johnny Cash

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take ...

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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

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

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 ra...

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

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

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.

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

Author Bio

  • NameJohnny Cash
  • DescriptionAmerican singer-songwriter
  • AliasesThe Man In Black; John R. Cash
  • BornFebruary 26, 1932
  • DiedSeptember 12, 2003
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Singer-songwriter; Singer; Actor; Composer; Musician; Songwriter; Autobiographer
  • AwardsNational Medal Of Arts; Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award; Grammy Legend Award; Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame