Johnny Cash (Singer)

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 time

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 pride in my work as an honest performer.

— Johnny Cash life

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 love

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

— Johnny Cash time

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

— Johnny Cash you

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

— Johnny Cash money

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 men

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 sin

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 man

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.

— Johnny Cash art

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

— Johnny Cash writing

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

— Johnny Cash god

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 time

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 man

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 sin

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 writing

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 self

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

— Johnny Cash art

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

— Johnny Cash life

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 art

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 time

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 love

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

— Johnny Cash novel

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

— Johnny Cash work

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 love

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You dont try to forget the mistakes, but you dont dwell on it. You dont let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

— Johnny Cash time

Cash: I went into a coma and I was there for 12 days. They all thought I was dying and they couldnt diagnose what was wrong with me. They finally came up with a diagnosis of Shy-Drager syndrome. It was few months later they realized I didnt have that so it was Parkinsons. And then it was not that. Then finally it was autonomic neuropathy.And Im pretty well resolved to the fact that thats what it is. And its a slow process of the nerve endings. King: No cure? Cash: No, I dont think so. But thats all right. Theres no cure for life either.

— Johnny Cash life

Gods the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. Thats solely in the hands of God.

— Johnny Cash god

So we raise her up every morning And we bring her down slow every night, We dont let her touch the ground, And we fold her up right. On second thought I do like to brag. Cause Im mighty proud of That Ragged Old Flag.Ragged Old Flag

— Johnny Cash thought

Hey, get rhythm when you get the blues. Hey, get rhythm when you get the blues. Yes a jumpy rhythm makes you feel so fine. Itll shake all the trouble from your worried mind. Get rhythm when you get the blues.Get Rhythm

— Johnny Cash mind

Hey porter! Hey porter! Would you tell me the time? How much longer will it be till we cross that Mason Dixon Line? At daylight would ya tell that engineer to slow it down? Or better still, just stop the train, Cause I wanna look around.Hey, Porter

— Johnny Cash time

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.Explo 72

— Johnny Cash god

I hear the train a comin, Its rollin? round the bend. An I ain?t seen the sunshine Since I dont know when. Im stuck in Folsom prison, And time keeps draggin on. But that train keeps a rollin On down to San Antone.Folsom Prison Blues

— Johnny Cash time

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 youre mine, I walk the line.I Walk the Line

— Johnny Cash time

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