Johnny Cash

Singer

1932-02-26 – 2003-09-12

Johnny Cash was an American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential artists in country music. He was known for songs including "I Walk the Line" and "Ring of Fire."

Quotes by Johnny Cash

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.
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My arms are too short to box with God.
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My arms are too short to box with God.
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I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.
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God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.
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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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When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.
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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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For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.
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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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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
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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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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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I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
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