Johnny Cash Quotes (31 Quotes)

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

Asked about his songwriting achievements, he said he was a big fan of the Golden Age of Country Music, ... It was when artists had an identity bigger than any of their songs.

Because you're mine; I walk the line.

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.

The Master of Life's been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal.Life and love go on, let the music play.

I'd like to wear a rainbow every day, and tell the world that everything is o.k. But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back. Until things are brighter, I'm the Man in Black.

You can tell they're all having fun, as Johnny Cash sings that he'll live forever, coming back like a single drop of rain again and again. Waylon Jennings joins in with more of such verse, all of it in the vein of some down-home Longfellow. With the four of us, we had 135 years on the road, ... I almost did live forever.

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.

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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.

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

Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief,some joy Memories are made of this.

So, I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain. I found that to be true in my life. 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.

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!

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.

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.

If you can hold your listener, hold their attention, and you're sure you know what you're doing, and know that you're communicating - You know, performance is communicating. You've got to communicate. You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut.

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, I'll write it.

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.

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.

When I think about country music, I think about America,

This is the hide-out he and June used for 14 years,

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

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.'

I remember everything What have I become My sweetest friend Everyone 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.

June Carter Cash, Keep on the Sunny Side -- Her Life in Music ... The Legend

After about three lessons the voice teacher said, Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.

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.

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.

I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

I went down with my guitar and sat on his steps until he got there. And when he got there I introduced myself and he said, You're the one that's been calling. I said, Yeah. You know, I had to take the chance, he was either going to let me come in, or he was going to run me off. Evidently, he woke up on the right side of the bed that morning. He said, Come on in, let's listen.