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Johnny Cash Quotes

Enjoy the top 157 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Johnny Cash.

“Theyre powerful, those songs. At times theyve been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.”
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“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate ... I choose love.”

— Johnny Cash

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.

— Johnny Cash

“It's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people”

— Johnny Cash

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

— Johnny Cash

“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.”

— Johnny Cash

“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

“I love weather. I'm a connoisseur of weather. Wherever my travels take me, the first thing I do is turn on the weather channel and see what's going on, what's coming. I like to know about regional weather patterns, how storms are created in different altitudes, what kinds of clouds are forming or dissipating or blowing through, where the winds are coming from, where they've been. That's not a passion everybody shares, I know, but I don't believe there are any people on earth who, properly sheltered, don't feel the peace inside a summer rain and the cleansing it brings, the renewal of the earth in its aftermath.”

— Johnny Cash

“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.”

— Johnny Cash

The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.

— Johnny Cash

“However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.”

— Johnny Cash

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

“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

“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

“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.”

— 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 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

“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

As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.

— 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

“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.”

— Johnny Cash

“If you have political convictions ... keep 'em to yourself”

— Johnny Cash

“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.”

— Johnny Cash

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

“Everything I have and everything I do is now given completely to Jesus Christ.”

— 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

When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

— Johnny Cash

“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.”

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“When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, 'You mean besides George Jones?'”

— Johnny Cash

“Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable ... but most of all, it's having those loved ones.”